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Film Review and Interview: Bill Flanagan on Jimmy Carter — Rock & Roll President

September 15, 2020
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After the misery, cynicism, and division of the past four years, Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President is a breath of fresh air.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — June 8

June 8, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

December 13, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, and dance coming up this week.

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Jazz Performance and CD Review / Commentary: Jane Ira Bloom’s “Wild Lines” and “Early Americans”

August 17, 2016
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Exposing the jazz impulses in Emily Dickinson’s poetry is not an agenda for the novice.

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Arts Commentary: Art, Music, and the New Age of Anxiety

February 14, 2025
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However late the hour and however long the road ahead, the cause of standing for justice, knowledge, and freedom isn’t yet doomed. Along the way, let the arts comfort, inspire, instruct, and help lead. That’s what they’re here for.

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Music Review/Commentary: The Fringe in Context — Boston Conservatory’s New Music Festival II

December 4, 2011
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Boston Conservatory’s New Music Festival is inspiring a series of critical and speculative commentaries from Fuse Jazz Critic Steve Elman. Here is the second, which focuses on The Fringe and some of the qualities that make the trio special in the world of jazz.

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Poetry Review: A “Memorial” Written in a Voice That Does Not Break

September 23, 2012
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Alice Oswald’s “Memorial” begins with a list of 214 names, a bare, sorrowful cousin to the ship’s roll. If you know the old stories, you’ll begin to recognize some names, and then start to look forward to others.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — July 2

July 2, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Book Review: “Lena Horne — Goddess Reclaimed”

October 27, 2023
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One might conjecture that  Lena Horne’s career was something like a mink-lined minefield: the promise of wealth and fame went hand-in-hand with the possibility of annihilation.

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Poetry Review: The Dark of Love –The Poetry of Patrizia Cavalli

September 18, 2013
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If Patrizia Cavalli’s poetry is egocentric, even probably autobiographical, its narrator shows a detachment enabling her to observe herself from one remove, even when she describes herself in the élans of attraction.

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