Arts Fuse Editor
At this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, there were celebrities, studio premieres and plenty of films with modest budgets that vied for attention.
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Poet Helena Minton deserves our attention; her verse is grounded in a close observation of nature and a love of language.
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A new documentary artfully and excitingly suggests what made David Bowie tick.
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Emmanuel Carrère’s novel powerfully satirizes intellectual pretension but at the expense of engaging storytelling.
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A lot of history is jammed into this book, but the author manages to ruminate in an informative and engrossing way on 50-plus years of pop music.
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Anna Deveare Smith’s examination of racism in America remains powerful, 30 years on.
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Historian Katherine Harvey’s well-researched and lively book shows that in the Middle Ages lust had its way. Big time.
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This year the Camden International Film Festival, which may be the finest documentary film festival in New England, examines the importance of place.
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Reboot is a razor-sharp sitcom about the world of sitcoms and represents Steven Levitan’s triumphant return to comedy.
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WATCH CLOSELY: Post-Emmy Recommendations
Television is the new art cinema, chock full of superb examples of storytelling across multiple genres.
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