Bad Moon Rising turns out to be justified by new evidence, some of which will be surprising to all concerned.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fuse Views: De Niro, anti-Vaxxing, Tribeca
Vaccination has, on the basis of all evidence, been thoroughly discredited as a cause of autism.
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.
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.”
Fuse Feature: Quotes for the New Year
Some pithy quotes to keep in mind for the New Year.