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Book Review: “Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness” — No Way Out?

Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness has scholarly value but, given its diminution of human agency, it will not significantly impact real life public conversations about ending white privilege and dealing with the complexities of cultural appropriation.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Books, Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Dave Brubeck, Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness, Kelsey Klotz

Book Review: “Epic Annette” — What Is Heroism?

Surely the selfless subject of Anne Weber’s Epic Annette qualifies beyond doubt as a true heroine of the twentieth century?

By: Kai Maristed Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Annette Beaumanoir, Epic Annette, Kai Maristed, Poetry, The Indigo Press

Book Feature: An Excerpt From Roberta Silman’s “Summer Lightning”

As Spring approaches, a treat. An excerpt from Summer Lightning, the latest novel by Arts Fuse critic Roberta Silman. It is a book that attempts to convey happiness.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Roberta Silman, Summer Lightning

Film Commentary: The Books That Shaped My Film Aesthetic

Here’s a personal list of the 25 most important, influential books about American cinema. Only one book per author.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Carlos Clarens, Carol J. Clover, Charles Flynn, Danny Peary, David Bordwell, David Thomson, Donald Bogle, Dwight Macdonald, James Agee, Jim Kitses, Jonas Mekas, Joseph McBride, Kevin Brownlow, Kristin Thompson, Leonard Maltin, Lillian Ross, Molly Haskell, Pauline-Kael, Peter Wollen, Ray Carney, Richard Corliss, Robin Wood, Todd McCarthy, Vito Russo

Book Review: “All Sorts of Lives” — Katherine Mansfield, A Magician With Words

We can only wonder what Katherine Mansfield might have given us had she lived a normal life span, yet we should cherish what we have, as Claire Harman has done so beautifully.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Claire Harman, Katherine Mansfield, Roberta Silman

Book Review: “Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running”

Anyone who cares deeply about cinema owes Jonas Mekas an abiding debt for all that he did for independent American filmmaking.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Inesa Brasiske, Jonas Mekas, Jonas Mekas: the Camera Was Always Running, Kelly Taxter, Lukas Brasiskis

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

Here’s this week’s poem, “Creeley Song.”

By: John Mulrooney Filed Under: Books, Featured, Poetry at The Arts Fuse Tagged: John Mulrooney, Peter Gizzi

Book Review: “Why Dance Matters” — Slip Sliding Away

Because Mindy Aloff is so deeply personal and idiosyncratic — and so dependent on what was programmed by certain theaters, in certain years — her book distorts the very topic it is intended to illuminate.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Dance, Featured Tagged: Debra Cash, Hip Hop, Mindy Aloff, toyi toyi, Why Dance Matters, Yale-University-Press

Book Review: Janet Malcolm’s “Still Pictures” — An Anti-Confessional

Janet Malcolm never brings up the possibility that her powers of memory have dramatically diminished in old age. If that were the case, such an admission would’ve strengthened the book, giving it context. It would have humanized it, too.

By: Daniel Gewertz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Daniel Gewertz, Janet Malcolm, memoir, Still Pictures

Book Review: “What’s Prison For?” — A Case for Building Trust and Mutual Respect

In this valuable and necessary book Bill Keller argues that American prisons need to accept that men and women don’t stop being human beings because they’re in the custody of the state.

By: Bill Littlefield Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: American Prisons, Bill Keller, Bill Littlefield, Columbia University Press, Prison reform, What’s Prison For?

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