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Poetry Review: Ghassan Zaqtan’s Haunting Poetics of Suspension

May 25, 2012
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The poetry of Palestinian author Ghassan Zaqtan dwells in the space between life and death, memory and erasure, respite and continuous travel.

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Fuse Feature: Writer Carlos Fuentes — A Personal Remembrance

May 20, 2012
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As sorry as I was to lose Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes last week, I was nonetheless deeply pleased that he reached the age of 83. I almost killed him when he was 37.

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Book Interview: Damion Searls on “Amsterdam Stories”

May 17, 2012
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Written by a man who spent most of his life in a bourgeois harness, Amsterdam Stories focuses on the fleeting thrills of refusal, the chemical and philosphical rush that comes from floating free of responsibility.

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Book Review: “Emmaus” — A Fictional Puzzle Wrapped in a Spiritual Enigma

May 13, 2012
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Alessandro Baricco’s novella Silk, filled with inchoate erotic longings for which there is no explanation, became an international bestseller. Emmaus, his latest book in translation, also contains mysteries.

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Book Review: “When the Night” — A Memorably Icy Love Story

May 11, 2012
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In spare, exact prose Cristian Comencini lets this story unfold against an Alpine setting that is so vivid it, too, becomes a character in this strangely compelling novel.

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Book Review: Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence Opens

May 3, 2012
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Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s new museum, named for and based on his 2008 novel, The Museum of Innocence, has opened in Istanbul.

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Book Review: The Adventurous Stories of Etgar Keret — Home Invasion, Israeli Style

April 27, 2012
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The stories of Israeli writer Etgar Keret are diverse, one-of-a-kind safety nets, spun out of humor, tenderness and wild imaginings.

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Fuse Dispatches: The Benefits of Doubt — A Dispatch from the Second of William Kentridge’s Norton Lectures

March 30, 2012
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For William Kentridge history accrues, falls dead, is born, washes up, piles up, and may be artfully arranged, but the most powerful place that this accretion might happen is in the artist’s studio, which is a metonym for the human mind.

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Visual Arts Feature: Museum Hopping Through Europe

March 25, 2012
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The Fuse’s man in Europe is a museum junkie. During the second half of 2011, he got to lots of new destinations, and he found new museums almost everywhere he went. This installment is about Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Belgium.

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Stage Interview: Israeli Stage and “Apples From The Desert”

March 23, 2012
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Israeli Stage’s readings are consistently the best attended in the Boston area, thus demonstrating that there is a great appetite for Israeli culture beyond folk dance and hummus.

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