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Harvey Blume

Book Review: “Bad Moon Rising” — New Findings about the Weather Underground

Bad Moon Rising turns out to be justified by new evidence, some of which will be surprising to all concerned.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Arthur M. Eckstein, Bad Moon Rising, FBI, How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution, Weather Underground, Yale-University-Press

Book Review: “The Last Days of Stalin” — The Death of a Nightmare

Joshua Rubenstein has penned a compact, chilling account of the demise of the Russian tyrant.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Communist history, Joseph Stalin, Joshua Rubenstein, Russian, The Last Days of Stalin, Yale-University-Press

Fuse Book Review: Peter Kramer’s Fight for Optimism about Antidepressants

In this book, Peter D. Kramer counters what he sees as an ill-informed and dangerous backlash against antidepressant medications.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Listening to Prozac, Peter D. Kramer, Spectacular Happiness, The Case for Antidepressants

Fuse Book Review: Cynthia Ozick — The Value of “Exaggerated Contempt”

For Cynthia Ozick, critics connect the dots; they inform us about what kind of culture we’re living in.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: And Other Literary Essays, critics, Cynthia-Ozick, Fanatics, literary-essays, monsters, Zoe Heller

Film Review: Tarzan, Swinging through the CGI Jungle

Of course, with the assistance of the massed megafauna (big beasts), and the yodeling of Tarzan, Jane is saved.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Alexander Skarsgård, David Yates, The Legend of Tarzan

Fuse Book Review: “Exit Right” — A Rich Study of Ideologues

Exit Right is about how six men entered into politics on the left side of the spectrum and wound up immured in varying extremes of conservatism.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Daniel Oppenheimer, Exit Right, Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century, Simon & Schuster

Fuse Views: De Niro, anti-Vaxxing, Tribeca

Vaccination has, on the basis of all evidence, been thoroughly discredited as a cause of autism.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Fuse News Tagged: Andrew Wakefield, autism, Robert De Niro, Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe

Fuse Remembrance: Peter-Adrian Cohen — 11/16/1939 – 3/7/2016

Peter-Adrian Cohen, playwright, critic, and late-life friend, died early in March, in Zurich, age seventy-six.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Fuse News Tagged: Peter-Adrian Cohen

Arts Interview: Postmodernism with the late Umberto Eco

“All my effort is to transform machines into narrative, to show how much narrative power they have inside them, how they can tell stories.”

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Foucault’s Pendulum, interview, postmodernism, The Island of the Day Before, The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco

Fuse Feature: Quotes for the New Year

Some pithy quotes to keep in mind for the New Year.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged: New Year's, New Year's Quotes

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