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Book Review: Charles Dickens — Chronic Liar

January 27, 2024
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The book’s most damaging and embarrassing charge against Charles Dickens: he was a reckless syphilitic who infected his wife and children.

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Film Reviews: Music at Sundance 2024 – Rap in Irish, Devo’s Satire, Brian Eno’s Reflections

January 26, 2024
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Among the memorable films at Sundance 2024, a trio of music films led the way.

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Book Review: “Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras” — Celebrating Blaxploitation Cinema

January 26, 2024
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“Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras” celebrates Blaxploitation as a positive as well as a necessary turning point in American cinema.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

January 25, 2024
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This Week’s Poem: “Rowdy Astronomers Out There.”

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Film Review: “The Sweet East” — Indifference as Self-Preservation?

January 25, 2024
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“The Sweet East” is politically tame, though it is often entertaining, particularly when it depicts some distinctly American anxieties.

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Doc Talk: Racism and the Race to the White House

January 24, 2024
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Two PBS documentaries paint a grim picture of the American soul.

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Book Review / Jazz Essay: A Complicated Matter — Stephen Provizer’s “As Long as They Can Blow”

January 24, 2024
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This is a story about jazz that we only think we know: the book challenges our preconceptions with admirable restraint, and generously invites others to build on its work.

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Concert Review: Pianist Hélène Grimaud — Combining Gritty Force and Dark Ecstasy

January 23, 2024
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Hélène Grimaud’s performances of Brahms, Busoni, and Beethoven drew on the strengths of her boldly imaginative powers, which have only deepened over the past two decades.

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Dance Review: Ashwini Ramaswamy’s “Let the Crows Come” — Beckoning the Birds

January 23, 2024
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The point was clear: we had been watching an elaborate invitation, a dance made to tempt the magical crows.

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Opera Album Review: From Denmark with Love, Passion, Irony, and Much More — Works by Carl Nielsen and Helge Bonnén

January 23, 2024
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Carl Nielsen’s vivid biblical opera “Saul & David,” here paired with Helge Bonnén’s remarkable concert adaptation of poems from “Spoon River Anthology.”

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