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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
Read MoreAn Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
Read MoreTo his credit, Garry Wills does not attempt to tell us what Shakespeare or his contemporaries “really meant,” nor does he suggest that there are ways that these plays ought be staged.
Read MoreRussian Winter is part mystery and part love story, drawing on the (overly) familiar tropes of each: the missing jewels, the deceived lovers, and so on. The material is not original, but it is workable and proffers plenty of Hollywood glamor. Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay. Harper Perennial, 496 pages, $14.99. By Nora Delany It…
Read MoreReviewed By Helen Epstein An hour and a half before curtain, operagoers are lining up at the AMC 10 cineplex in Burlington, Massachusetts across the road from the mall. Forty-five minutes later, the only available seats in Theater 3 are in the first two neck-craning rows. It’s 12:15 p.m., a sunny Saturday in February when…
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, and author events for the coming week.
Read MoreThis superb book about adventures in radical thinking is less about tracking incendiary ideas to their obscure sources than about the various media used to ferment and transmit them.
Read MoreSamuel Adams, a superb political organizer who helped turn the Boston Massacre into a cause célèbre, was more conservative than modern admirers, including biographer Stacy Schiff, want to admit.
Read MoreMaybe finally we’re reaching the Natsume Sōseki moment in the English-speaking world.
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Arts Remembrance: To Sérgio with Love — Sérgio Mendes, 1941–2024