Arts Fuse Editor
About Endlessness’s deadpan combination of sadness and rage feels complete, as if the master dropped the mic before leaving the building after the final edit.
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“The suburbs of Los Angeles are so often neglected in literature and film because they are so seemingly impervious to adoration.”
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Chronicling Stankonia is an engaging read, one that adroitly balances rigorous academic research with a deeply personal narrative about Black life and art in the post-Civil Rights Era in the South.
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“I don’t work the system anymore, except as a last resort: I aim instead to bypass it. The better I have gotten at circumventing gatekeepers, the more successful my writing career has been.”
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This Is a Robbery is the most complete and compelling narrative yet about the looting of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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In his new book on film directors, critic David Thomson gives us plenty to think about and plenty more to argue about.
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Nothing that guitarist Pat Metheny had done previously hinted at this sprawling 1981 masterpiece.
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You need to hear this play. Especially if you are white and already “know” Othello. Listen again (and again) and prepare to question old assumptions.
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Director Jess Chayes has done all that is humanly possible to stage a lively live production under Zoom constraints.
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This is one of the best traditional big band records you’ll hear this year, or maybe this decade.
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