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Book Review: Éric Vuillard’s “An Honorable Exit” — A Brilliant Chronicle of a Tragedy Foretold

April 27, 2023
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Éric Vuillard’s method is to create an ironic rapport with the powerful: his vignettes dramatize how France’s elite delude themselves into thinking the colonial world order can be kept intact after World War Two.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

April 26, 2023
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Here’s this week’s poem, January Gill O’Neil’s “The Map.”

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Classical Music Preview: The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2023-2024 Season — Celebrating the Legacy of Serge Koussevitzky

April 26, 2023
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Through fresh new works and a welcome toss-up of pieces commissioned during Koussevitzky’s historic tenure, the BSO’s coming season will honor the fullness of the Russian-born conductor’s legacy.

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Doc Talk: Celebrating Nonfiction Film at the IFFBoston — Seeing Afresh

April 26, 2023
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This is what cinema is all about and these will probably be some of the best movies you will see all year.

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Music Festival Preview: Lowell’s The Town and The City — “A Passion Project”

April 25, 2023
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The Town and the City Festival honors the “spirit of [Jack] Kerouac, a celebration of exploration, discovery, love of life, those things that he wrote about.”

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Author Interview: Dr. Peniel E. Joseph on the Third Reconstruction and Hope for a Multiracial Democracy

April 25, 2023
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Blake Maddux talks to Peniel Joseph about his latest book, “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century.”

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Classical Concert Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Anne-Sophie Mutter — Together Again

April 24, 2023
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If Andris Nelsons’s direction revealed one thing, it’s that violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and composer Thomas Adès make a stellar musical pairing.

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Film Review: “Suzume” – Chair Bud

April 23, 2023
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Were the entire film a road tripping adventure between a high school girl and a silly little chair she has to either carry in her arms or lug around in an oversized knapsack then I’d be able to recommend the film with full enthusiasm.

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Music Documentary Review: “Music Under the Swastika” — Uncomfortably Timely

April 23, 2023
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The road to ultimate destruction is lined by spiritual apathy, intellectual carelessness, and moral equivalency.

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Coming Attractions: April 23 Through May 9 — What Will Light Your Fire

April 23, 2023
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As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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