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Bill Marx

Theater Commentary: Theater in a Time of Emergency? — The Same Old Same Old

Are Boston’s stage critics disengaged from reality? Or is it that they are afraid to speak up?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: criticism, Pandemic!, theater-criticism

Book Review: A Retrograde Shakespearean Shout-Out

Shakespearean’s version of the Bard comes off as somewhat Monty Pythonesque — we are usually marching along with “Men Men Men.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Robert McCrum, Shakespearean, William-Shakespeare

Book Review: “Divine Images” — William Blake’s Imagination as Mankind’s Saving Grace

The author’s aim is to render William Blake’s complex vision understandable to novices. It is a lucid effort, though the book presents a disappointingly conventional overview of the artist’s achievement.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Bill-Marx, Divine Images: The Life and Work of William Blake, Jason Whittaker, Reaktion Books

Book Interview: Translator Brian Nelson on Finally Hearing Émile Zola’s Voice in English

“Why read Zola now? Leaving aside sheer enjoyment of his narrative art, I’d say: because his representation of society’s impact on the individuals within it memorably depicts what it means to be a human being in the modern world.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: 19th century French literature, Brian Nelson, Oxford University Press, translation, Zola

Book Interview: Translator Julie Rose on the Lyrical Power of Émile Zola’s “Doctor Pascal”

Published in August of 2020, Oxford University Press’s English translation of Doctor Pascal marked the first time that Émile Zola’s 20-book Les Rougon-Macquart series was available in print under one publisher.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview, Technology and the Arts Tagged: Doctor Pascal, Earth, Emile Zola, Julie Rose, Oxford University Press

Shelter in Place Attractions: April 18 through May 4 — What Will Light Your Home Fires

In the age of COVID-19, Arts Fuse critics have come up with a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music — mostly available by streaming — for the coming weeks. More offerings will be added as they come in.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Preview Tagged: Bill-Marx, Jon Garelick, Matt Hanson, Merli V. Guerra, Noah Schaffer, peter-Walsh, Tim Jackson

Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Film (Part Two)

1971 gave us bursts of magnificent cinematic iconoclasm that had no future — culturally or politically.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: A Clockwork Orange, David Stewart, Ezra Haber Glenn, Nicole Veneto, Peg Aloi, Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Last Picture Show, The Nightcomers

Shelter in Place Attractions: April 4 through 20 — What Will Light Your Home Fires

In the age of COVID-19, Arts Fuse critics have come up with a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music — mostly available by streaming — for the coming weeks. More offerings will be added as they come in.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Preview Tagged: Bill-Marx, Evelyn Rosenthal, Jon Garlick, Matt Hanson, Merli V. Guerra, Noah Schaffer, peter-Walsh, Tim Jackson

Author Interview: Critic Morris Dickstein — “We Need a New Minority Culture”

“Arts journalism should meet the same high standard as other forms of writing but rarely does, even in the good old days.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Columbia University, memoir, Morris Dickstein, Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education

Book Review: “One Left” — The Silence of Enslaved Women

This Korean novel dramatizes, with indelible force, the utter dehumanization of women confined to authoritarian patriarchal imprisonment.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Bruce Fulton, Kim Soom, One Left, University of Washington Press

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