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Book Review: “Realigners” — Stuck in the Middle

November 7, 2022
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In the end, the historical cavalcade Timothy Shenk presents doesn’t tell us much about how America ended up in such straits or how it will pull out of them, if at all.

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Dance Review: “What Problem?” — Bill T. Jones’s Angel of History

November 6, 2022
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The struggle is to define what the problem is – and to allow the questions to have big, destabilizing, and more honest answers.

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Coming Attractions: November 6 through 22 — What Will Light Your Fire

November 6, 2022
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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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Classical Concert Review: Radius Ensemble — A Vivid Musical Journey, Filled with Solace and Grandeur

November 5, 2022
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The stormy exuberance of Debussy’s Piano Trio in G major inspired one of the many highlights of this mostly auspicious night.

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Book Review: Irish Author Claire Keegan Hits Her Stride

November 4, 2022
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In Claire Keegan’s fiction, each sentence matters and each, sometimes very ordinary, action has real consequences.

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Doc Talk: Five New Nonfiction Films Worth a Look

November 4, 2022
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From Mobile to Mars, from the mind of Robin Williams to the rise and fall of a Pez entrepreneur, and with a side trip to Newton South High.

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Book Review: “Leon Kirchner and His Verdant World” — Addictively Readable

November 4, 2022
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Again and again, one encounters vivid glimpses of a man whose passion for music and music-making was immense, and who was gifted at conveying that passion to colleagues and students.

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Book Review: “Folk Music — A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs”

November 3, 2022
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At points Greil Marcus’ digressive style can seem like nervy brilliance, at others, idle whimsy. What ennobles the book is the critic’s love for his underlying subject: the soulful search for a truer America.

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November Short Fuses — Materia Critica

November 3, 2022
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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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Book Review: Bob Dylan’s “Philosophy of Modern Song”

November 3, 2022
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The point of Bob Dylan’s project is emotional rather than definitive: to probe the power of song to influence us, make us feel, and ultimately transform us.

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