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Arts Remembrance: Poet Philip Levine — A Voice of Muscle and Grit

February 16, 2015
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Last Saturday, poet Philip Levine died at the age of 87 in Fresco, California. Here is a reprint of an Arts Fuse appreciation of the writer, originally posted in May of last year.

Book Review: “Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli, A Strange Romance” — But an Amazing Marriage

February 13, 2015
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Daisy Hay turns her sharp yet sympathetic eye on Mary Anne and Benjamin Disraeli, whose marriage seemed unlikely at the start but which grew into something not only strange but, even in modern terms, amazing.

Fuse Book Review: “Wilde in America” — Not Wild Enough?

February 13, 2015
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What Oscar Wilde was peddling in America was beauty. Art for art’s sake. Gorgeous flowers. Ravishing colors.

Fuse Book Review: “Bomb’s Author Interviews” — Hipper Than Thou

February 8, 2015
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Bomb Magazine’s goal is not merely to comment on the arts, it is about making art.

Book Review: “American Justice 2014” — A Sturdy Look at the Current Supreme Court

February 7, 2015
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The most important takeaway from American Justice 2014 is the potential danger, from Epps’s perspective, of the growing influence of Justice Alito.

Poetry Review: Epiphanic Wholenesses — The Poems of Tsvetanka Elenkova

January 30, 2015
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Tsvetanka Elenkova is one of the key figures in contemporary Bulgarian poetry.

Book Review: “The Water-Babies” — A Darwinian Fairy Tale by an Eccentric’s Eccentric

January 30, 2015
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Why is The Water-Babies a classic fairy tale? It doesn’t take itself too seriously, yet it doesn’t ignore important issues.

Book Review: “Silver Screen Fiend” — A Remembrance of Movie Madness Past

January 29, 2015
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Why did Patton Oswalt submit himself, for a time, to drowning in movies? I never quite understood that..

Book Review: Benito Pérez Galdós’s “Tristana” — Liberation, Though Off-Kilter

January 27, 2015
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Tristana is Ibsen’s Doll’s House played as a gaunt farce, a vision of feminism as icy egotism rather than individual liberation.

Fuse Book Review: The Subdued Yearning of “Guys Like Me” — The Sad-Droll Prose of Dominique Fabre

January 26, 2015
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Very little happens in Dominique Fabre’s books, yet one keeps on reading. because he so genuinely depicts the ordinary lives that most of us lead.

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