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.
Poet Helena Minton deserves our attention; her verse is grounded in a close observation of nature and a love of language.
A new documentary artfully and excitingly suggests what made David Bowie tick.
Emmanuel Carrère’s novel powerfully satirizes intellectual pretension but at the expense of engaging storytelling.
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.
Anna Deveare Smith’s examination of racism in America remains powerful, 30 years on.
Historian Katherine Harvey’s well-researched and lively book shows that in the Middle Ages lust had its way. Big time.
This year the Camden International Film Festival, which may be the finest documentary film festival in New England, examines the importance of place.
Reboot is a razor-sharp sitcom about the world of sitcoms and represents Steven Levitan’s triumphant return to comedy.
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