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Book Review: “Disputing Disaster” — A Fascinating Look at the Search for the Origins of World War I

November 4, 2024
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In tracing the tortuous path that established historians took in trying to get to the bottom of the war, Perry Anderson doesn’t acknowledge leftwing observers who knew perfectly well what was going on at the time.

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Visual Arts Review: Together Again? — O’Keeffe and Moore at the MFA

November 3, 2024
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“Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore” at the MFA builds a case for two artists that many are inclined to think of as “unlikely bedfellows.” Brava! 

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Book Review: Shannon Bowring’s Compellingly Large Visions of Small-Town Life

November 3, 2024
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Shannon Bowring is a wonderfully wise and compassionate writer, exquisitely alert to the varieties of human experience that exist at the end of the 20th century.

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Classical Album Reviews: Dvorak Symphonies from Atlanta and Prague

November 2, 2024
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Not all of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conductor Nathalie Stutzmann’s ideas about Dvorak’s Ninth Symphony add up, but there is not much to argue with in Czech Philharmonic Orchestra director Semyon Bychkov’s take on Dvorak’s Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Symphonies. 

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November Short Fuses — Materia Critica

November 1, 2024
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Film Review: “Frankie Freako” – For a Good Time, Call …

November 1, 2024
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Filled with B-movie puppet antics, “Frankie Freako” is a joyous throwback to the days where you could walk into a video store and rent one of a dozen Gremlins rip-offs about someone’s mundane suburban life being upended by a bunch of little guys.

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Jazz Album Review: Ohad Talmor’s “Back to the Land” — Homage to Ornette Coleman

November 1, 2024
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We should be grateful for Ohad Talmor’s wide-ranging curiosity, not only because of the detective work he put into the Ornette Coleman/Lee Konitz recordings, but because of his uniquely varied presentations of these mostly unknown pieces.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

October 31, 2024
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This week’s poem: Adeena Karasick’s “On the Uncertain Certain: Negotiating Deepfakes and Shallow Discourse in the Counterpoise of the Unthought”

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Concert Review: The Boston Symphony Chamber Players Probe the Depths of Francis Poulenc

October 31, 2024
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It’s a rare treat to hear these three Francis Poulenc sonatas on a single program.

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Actor Interview: Toni Collette Makes her Case for “Juror #2”

October 31, 2024
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“I still pinch myself that I got to work with Clint Eastwood. But any anxiety quickly dissipated upon meeting him. He is so cool and calm and funny and easy.”

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