Lucas Spiro

Book Review: “The Wages” — A Powerful Folk Tale About Slavery

March 6, 2019
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We need stories like The Wages to expose the hypocrisy and incoherence of the institutions that we are supposed to believe are pillars of justice.

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Arts Fuse Podcast #11: Talking With Lloyd Schwartz — And Skinny Jerry Garcia and Nixon Read Poetry

March 1, 2019
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We were overjoyed to spend this episode with Pulitzer prize winning critic, poet, and teacher Lloyd Schwartz. Stick around for the poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon, too

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Book Review: “The Rebels and Other Short Fiction” — The Irish, Defeated

February 9, 2019
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This fine collection of short fiction reinforces Richard Power’s reputation as a master storyteller.

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Film Review: “Best of Luck with the Wall” — Mapping How Lost We Are

January 18, 2019
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Josh Begley, in a mere six minutes, demonstrates how impossible the notion of a border wall is, from an engineering and construction perspective.

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Notes on The Arts Fuse Podcast — From Its Producer

January 5, 2019
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I wanted the podcast to be both an honest reflection of what The Arts Fuse is, but also allow the voices that contribute to the magazine to find new ways of expressing their critiques in a new medium.

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Arts Fuse Podcast #8: New Year’s Edition — Good Riddance, 2018…

January 1, 2019
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Pull up a chair and sit with us a while. We’ll ring out this miserable year together and flip the calendar with, dare I say, some hope?

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Book Review: “Impossible Owls” — Beauty on the Margins

November 4, 2018
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Brian Phillips uses the essay form to map the limits of America’s cultural-historical imagination, from our highest achievements to our kitschiest expressions of who we think we are, and who we think everyone else is.

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Book Review: “The Farm” — Obsessed With The Land

October 4, 2018
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There can be no future, Héctor Abad seems to be arguing, when everything you are is hidden away in a time you can never fully know.

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Book Review: “Interior” — The Thing-as-Himself

August 29, 2018
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Thomas Clerc’s novel reminds us of a stubborn truth: we are all narcissists that live to accumulate shit in rooms.

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Book Review: “After Ireland” — An Insightful Survey

July 21, 2018
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The critic settles too comfortably too often on a familiar trope — Ireland’s sense of promise squelched.

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