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Book Review: The South – What Jim Crow Was and Wasn’t

May 9, 2022
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We need to realize how important class is in order to understand how inequality can rise as Confederate monuments fall.

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Book Review and Commentary: Albert Murray’s Non-fiction – A Balm in Columbia

February 21, 2017
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At his best, Albert Murray is a thinker passionately in love with thinking, a virtuoso of verbal music, an American to his core.

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April Short Fuses – Materia Critica

April 9, 2021
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

September 20, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, visual art, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

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Coming Attractions: November 4 Through 20 — What Will Light Your Fire

November 4, 2018
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Film Commentary: Wes Anderson, Stefan Zweig, and Discovering the Value of “The World of Yesterday”

April 10, 2014
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Perhaps a movie such as “The Grand Budapest Hotel, which is much more than a zany comedy, can lead us back, as director Wes Anderson may have intended, to the fabulous writing of Stefan Zweig.

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September Short Fuses – Materia Critica

September 4, 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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Jazz CD Preview and Survey: Years of Utter Beauty, Part 2

January 27, 2019
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Part one of this survey looked at one upcoming performance and five CDs where music takes the leading role. This post looks at the other side of the coin, where the words are the wellspring for the music.

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Book Review: A Progressive Manifesto — “Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream”

May 4, 2023
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Journalist Alissa Quart is hardly the first on the left to lament the dark underbelly of American individualism.

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November Short Fuses — Materia Critica

November 1, 2024
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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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