Arts Fuse Editor
Parasite’s powerful vision of the existentially downtrodden offers equal nods to Karl Marx and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Read More“I wrote those poems because I think people need to read the truth and to hear the truth about romantic sensibilities between gay people.”
Read MoreBlack + White from the Fernanda Ghi Dance Company was provocative, dramatic, and oh-so-mysterious.
Read MoreBook Review: “Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem” — A Dazzling Study of the Oldest Long Poem in the World
This is a wonderfully readable book, sure-footed in its scholarship but hip and occasionally hilarious in its tone.
Read MoreLike Breaking Bad, El Camino subtly suggests that justice is a relative concept.
Read MoreJeremy O. Harris’s bold new play is wildly provocative and hysterically funny.
Read MoreIn Cypress Grove, Jimmy “Duck” Holmes’ deep Bentonia guitar remains pure and present, while his vocals, which have never sounded better, are solid and vibrant throughout.
Read Morejaimie branch knows music has to be wild and dangerous and beautiful to cut through all the distractions of our times.
Read MoreWhat remains so seductive about Almodovar is the way he replicates the movement of thought, creating a seamless weave between the story moving forward — rather minimal in this case — and the richer, more luminous past.
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Literary Appreciation: The Late Harold Bloom — Pursuer of “Difficult Pleasures”
“What is the function of literary criticism in a Disinformation Age? Read, reread, describe, evaluate, appreciate: that is the art of literary criticism for the present time.” — Harold Bloom
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