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Film Review: “The Field” — Nouveau Folk Horror

February 11, 2020
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The Field is a fairly original, if slightly problematic, folk horror-tinged story.

Poetry Review: Lawrence Joseph’s “A Certain Clarity” — Poetry and Justice

February 11, 2020
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Lawrence Joseph makes the case that representing violence in verse is necessary because of poetry’s value as art: to concisely capture these deadly events.

Book Review: Amina Cain’s “Indelicacy” — Brilliant, But Icy, Minimalism

February 10, 2020
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Amina Cain’s style is unusual, and it may tow readers so rapidly through this brief novel they won’t look back.

Theater Review: August Wilson’s “Radio Golf” — The Culture We Build

February 10, 2020
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The message of August Wilson’s final play: the future rests not on the number of Whole Foods we build but on the culture we value.

Coming Attractions: February 9 Through 25 — What Will Light Your Fire

February 9, 2020
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

Theater Review: “Robert Frost: This Verse Business” — Friendly to a Fault

February 9, 2020
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The overall effect is one of a genial, superficial club lecture on reading and writing poetry, punctuated by Frost’s Greatest Hits.

Jazz Concert Review: Cécile McLorin Salvant and Aaron Diehl — A Remarkable Collaboration

February 8, 2020
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The recital of this remarkably self-aware singer was a series of highly literate and musically satisfying mini-dramas.

Film Review: “The Traitor” — The Enigma of Betrayal

February 8, 2020
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What makes The Traitor ultimately worth watching is its epic sweep, the deft way director Marco Bellocchio and his below-the-credits team carve out the dramatic highlights of Italy’s twenty year war with the Cosa Nostra.

Opera Album Review, Oscar Wilde, Part 3 — A Spiffy “The Importance of Being Earnest”

February 7, 2020
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Odyssey Opera revels in the glittering wit and touching moments of this full-length chamber opera by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, better known for his Hollywood film scores and some wonderful guitar pieces.

Book Review: “A Grief Sublime” — A Lasting Testament to the Power of Words to Sustain and Heal

February 7, 2020
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Here is why you have to read this book: It gives proof to my faith that those beautiful lines and paragraphs created through the ages can comfort in present distress and continue to do so as one heals.

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