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Book Review: Hebrew Poet Hayim Nahman Bialik — Not the Whole Story

February 13, 2017
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We learn a great deal about Hayim Nahman Bialik’s life in this biography. But the volume does not live up to its subtitle.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — February 13

February 13, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — February 12

February 12, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Literary Homage: John Berger’s Masterpiece, “A Painter of Our Time”

February 11, 2017
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A Painter of Our Time is a gorgeous rumination on art, love, sexuality, revolution, capitalism, exile, propaganda, politics, human nature, and society.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — February 11

February 11, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — February 10

February 10, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Book Review: “The Mary Julia Paintings of Joan Brown” — In a Pantheon All its Own

February 9, 2017
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Poet William Benton’s slender and beautiful book can safely be described as sui generis.

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Film Review: “The Salesman” — The Limits of Empathy

February 9, 2017
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Director Asghar Farhadi’s most stringent judgments generally fall upon members of his own sophisticated, worldly cohort.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — February 9

February 9, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Book Review: “The Feud” — Brilliant Literary Frenemies

February 8, 2017
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Alex Beam generates interest via his portrait of frenemies Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov as brainy but flawed human beings.

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