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In moments like these, the band Riverside captures the Jimmy Giuffre ideals of sonority and counterpoint — where even the drums act as another complementary linear voice.
Read MoreThis fascinating book ends, leaving the reader with all sorts of questions — but that is exactly what really good fiction always does. Opening our minds, etching characters in our imaginations, and generating all sorts of possibilities.
Read MoreHis art’s sunny, unhurried elegance, so at odds with its message, suggests that Finlay is taking a Swiftian rhetorical stance.
Read MoreThe nine tales found in “Maybe This Time” chart the unnerving psychological transformations of its characters. Its style forces us to reconsider our ways of reading and our childlike dependency on narrative authority.
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Revisiting a former Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
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Two highly recommended recordings by well-known artists performing some rather off-the-beaten-path repertoire.
Read MoreLooking deeply into things and, by no means least of all, into other human beings implies meditating on brevity, on ephemerality—and this is what Tone Škrjanec does in this book.
Read MoreBob Blumenthal has spent almost his entire listening life as an admirer of Rollins and an appreciator of his music, and he is a prose stylist of great elegance and precision. There is hardly anyone alive more qualified to write this kind of career-spanning appreciation. Saxophone Colossus: a Portrait of Sonny Rollins Text by Bob…
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It really bums me out to tell you that “MaXXXine,” the much awaited final film in the “X” trilogy, is an underwhelming ending to an otherwise interesting nu-slasher series.
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John Gray’s pessimism is a direct descendant of the cultural pessimism preached by Oswald Spengler, whose best-seller, “The Decline of the West,” played a major role in the growth of fascism in the 1920s and ’30s.
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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025