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Book Review: “The Elixir of Immortality” — A Fabulous Ride Through European History

February 1, 2014
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Love stories, treachery, brilliant plans, history itself gone awry – it’s all here in inspiring abundance in this fabulous novel, where the Spinozas make their way through hundreds of years of European history.

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Book Review: “Film After Film” — The Shadow History of Our Times as Seen on the Big Screen

June 4, 2013
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It may be only a movie, but in his book “Film after Film,” former Village Voice writer J. Hoberman proves he isn’t just a movie critic.

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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Music (July Entry)

July 16, 2021
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Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and this month’s list includes Little Feat, Jonathan Edwards, Hot Tuna, The Red Detachment of Women, and Jimmy Witherspoon & Eric Burdon.

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Book Interview: Zena Hitz on the Pleasures and Values of the Intellectual Life

May 28, 2020
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“We’re at the end, or toward the end, of an extended collapse of the institutions that made it possible for many of us to make a living through intellectual or creative activity. We’ll have to find another way.”

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Book Review: “The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting” — Punching for Respect

February 12, 2024
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Over the years, Lee Gutkind has been one of the most persistent and impassioned voices making the case for the value of creative nonfiction.

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Film Feature: Best Music Documentaries of 2022

December 31, 2022
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2022 in music documentaries: Ten worth streaming, plus a disappointment.

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Film Review: Two “Gialli” Gems from 1972 — “All the Colors of the Dark” and “The Case of the Bloody Iris”

June 19, 2022
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All the Colors of the Dark and The Case of the Bloody Iris are underrated giallo gems worth seeking out, representing not only the best of the genre, but sex symbol Edwige Fenech’s onscreen magnetism at its strongest.

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Book Review: The Lost Southern Chefs — A History of the Commercialization of Southern Hospitality

April 28, 2022
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For all of the book’s fascinating revelations, The Lost Southern Chefs leaves the reader with a number of unanswered questions.

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Book Review: “Ghost Geographies” — Dark but Magical Stories of the Dispossessed and the Stateless

January 26, 2022
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Tamas Dobozy is an anarchist in the best sense of the word: it’s not chaos he’s enamored of but a way of life untrammeled by political oppression, bureaucratic horrors, legal absurdities.

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Film Review: How do you (Re)make a Movie of “Berlin Alexanderplatz”?

April 30, 2021
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This new adaptation is sure to spark criticism from Döblin and Fassbinder loyalists, as well as those who might feel the film is not politically progressive enough. Nonetheless, it strikes the right chords: balancing between textual fidelity and contemporary relevance.

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