Arts Fuse Editor
This first-rate performance highlights the special attractions of the “half-serious” operatic genre.
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“The abuse in the church has very unique and cruel twists to it. And, as one of the oldest continuous patriarchal institutions in the world, looking at the church helps us to reflect upon how many established institutions, including families, help perpetuate and conceal violence throughout society.”
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Despite some occasionally far-fetched situations, Inventing Anna tells a fascinating story about conning the upper class.
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Alfred McCoy’s brilliant history examines the evolution of world orders leading up to Pax Americana and the current decline of the United States.
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Jack Kerouac would have turned 100 on March 17. A 2014 conversation about the writer with his literary executor, the late John Sampas.
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As the age of Covid-19 finally wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. Please check with venues when uncertain whether the event is available by streaming or is in person. More offerings will be added as they come in. The DocYard Spring Series A hybrid…
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Boston’s 15-year-old Guerilla Opera releases a recording of a fresh take on the old Grimm Brothers tale, to haunting, ritualistic music for four singers and four players.
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Korean writer-director Kogonada’s meditation on life and how it’s lived is dreamy, haunting, profound, and deeply moving.
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Here’s to Heather and Bill, and this lively saga…
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Book Review: From Rome in 63 BCE — A Warning for Our Perilous Political Moment
This most timely new translation of Sallust’s The War Against Catiline describes the ancient version of a phenomenon we will recognize instantly: a cold-blooded grift transmuted into terrorism posing as patriotism.
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