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Nix Chick Lit

Anyone who reads this bestselling, critically acclaimed novel becomes part of the focus group for the inevitable television or Hollywood stinker.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Candace-Bushnell, Sex-and-the-City, Short Fuse

Photograph to Book Cover

By Karl Baden View Gallery I’ve been spending far too much time in secondhand bookstores. I’ll waste hours in the shelves, looking, mostly without success, for those iconic photo books that I couldn’t afford when I was younger, and now are as rare as hen’s teeth. While prowling the stacks, I began to notice that […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Visual Arts Tagged: Photography, Visual Arts

Lyrical Hyperdrive

In a new collection of his poetry, Albert Goldbarth supplies a marvelous mosaic of images, quantum leaps of intuition, and artifacts of historical anecdotes.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books Tagged: Albert-Goldbarth, Poetry

Book Review: Don’t Fear the Cyborg

An engaging new memoir explores how the fusion of man and machine is about maintaining humanity, not creating monsters.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Cyborgs, Michael-Chorost, Robots, Short Fuse

Rock Review: The Music Never Stopped

With the arrival of a new biography and DVD, guitarist Jimi Hendrix may have finally gotten his due, the pieces of his puzzle finally assembled, with just enough mystery left over for the ages. “Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix” by Charles R. Cross. (Hyperion); “Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock [The Deluxe […]

By: Milo Miles Filed Under: Books, Music, Rock Tagged: Jimi-Hendrix, Milo Miles, Music

Sympathy for a Terrorist?

Salman Rushdie’s latest novel wants readers to fall in love with — or at least feel sympathy for — an Islamic militant.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books Tagged: Islam, Salman-Rushdie, Shalimar-the-Clown, Terrorism

Warning: Outsider Art

An increasingly popular movement in the visual arts prides itself on picturing everything that is the raw, untutored, and irrational.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: art, Lyle-Rexer, outsider-art, Short Fuse

Book Review: “The World Republic of Letters” — A Literary Demolition Derby

An intriguingly speculative study argues that the history of world literature boils down to a power struggle between outsiders and insiders.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books Tagged: Pascale-Casanova, Reviews

Book Review: Orhan Pamuk’s Memories — Istanbul the Melancholic

By Vincent Czyz In his latest book, acclaimed writer Orhan Pamuk has penned an intriguing memoir that focuses on his relationship with Istanbul, the city in which he has always lived. Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk. Knopf. Ottoman poets were fond of referring to Istanbul, then known to the world as Constantinople, […]

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Istanbul, Orhan-Pamuk, Turkey, Vincent Czyz

Cosmic Cloak and Dagger

Spanish literary phenomenon Javier Marias has come up with a spy novel that is more concerned with a theoretical investigation of truth, trust, and betrayal than with cloak and dagger spying.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books Tagged: Javier-Marias, Spanish-literature

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