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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.
Read MoreThe Witch-Hunt Narrative is an extremely important book about an ongoing phenomenon that will not go away anytime soon.
Read MoreContextualizing is everything. And that’s particularly true of Last Days in Vietnam, where the odious things Americans did there weigh down the ostensible heroics shown in our exiting the country.
Read MoreIn The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition, H. L. Mencken comes off as a marvelously mellowed master, his trademark savagery smoothed over, its energy focused on generating a pungently picturesque vision of a vanished America.
Read MoreNever mind all the timeless melodies Glenn Tilbrook’s written: Anyone who can rhyme the name Persephone with “incessantly” deserves immortality for that alone.
Read MoreIn F, vertigo is often palpable. Evil exists. “The terrifying beauty of things” does, too.
Read MoreMayor Walsh Announces Cabinet Level Chief of Arts and Culture. Important step in ongoing elevation of arts in Boston, Appointee led Chicago’s cultural planning process.
Read MoreThe most striking part of The Better Angels is its cinematography. The naked branches on the thick, gray trees are silhouetted against a sky that seems unable to hold sunlight.
Read More“The music itself is quite Gothic. It’s about murder, and death, and God, not all toe tapping stuff.”
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