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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

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

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.

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.

Reviews and Retrospective: Jane Ira Bloom’s “once like a spark” and “Songs in Space”

December 30, 2025
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2025 turned out to be a feast year for devotees of soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom. The music found on both of these releases could be thought of as exemplifying three areas Bloom has explored in depth and refined to purity.

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