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Coming Attractions: January 4 through 19 — What Will Light Your Fire

January 4, 2026
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Film Reviews: DOC NYC– The Fugs, Midwives, and Racial Strife in Canada

January 3, 2026
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Extensive and eclectic, DOC NYC is a sampling of documentary films for the coming year. These favorites are worth searching out.

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Book Review: Art, Desire, and Danger in Olivia Laing’s “The Silver Book”

January 3, 2026
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Olivia Laing’s hard-driven narrative, set mostly in 1975, combines a gay romance with a literary text about the dangers of resurfacing fascism, a discourse on 20th-century avant-garde film-making, and a political thriller.

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Poetry Review: “Sky of Sudden Changes” — In Living Color

January 3, 2026
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Many of the poems in this new collection take in the world through a distinctively painterly eye for scenes and sketches.

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Concert Reviews: The Disco Biscuits’ New Year’s Eve Run — Three Separate Performances

January 2, 2026
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The Disco Biscuits chose Boston as its base for a three-night New Year’s run that unfolded in three different venues.

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Theater Review: The Limits of “Wonder”

January 2, 2026
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“Wonder” aspires to make us more empathetic and to help us “choose kind.”

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January Short Fuses — Materia Critica

January 2, 2026
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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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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

January 1, 2026
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This week’s poem: Ish Klein’s “Global Amnesia”

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Film Review: “No Other Choice” — Park Chan-wook’s Bleakly Comic Portrait of Capitalist Despair

January 1, 2026
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“No Other Choice”’s South Korea looks as if it is steadily transforming into a home more fit for robots — manning the sawmills of capitalism — than humans.

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Film Review: Resurrecting the Dream — Bi Gan’s “Resurrection”

December 31, 2025
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Bi Gan’s sumptuous elegy to cinema is an artistic triumph, but the dreamy narrative may leave some viewers restless.

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