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Book Review: A Brilliant “Homeland Elegies” — Indispensable Witness

November 5, 2020
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What Ayad Akhtar reveals, with stunning detail and a passion and an urgency rarely seen in American fiction, is that his is a story marked by a loneliness similar to that found in Melville, Dreiser, and T.S. Eliot, among others, and that puts him squarely in their company.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — December 8

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

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Fuse Theater Review: Sondheim’s Scintillating Portrait of the Artist — Sunday in the Park with George

September 21, 2016
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The cherry on top of this terrific production is its stunning technical design, from lighting and sets to sound, projection, and costumes.

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Caldwell Titcomb, Theater and Music Critic — Words of Remembrance

October 30, 2011
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There was a memorial service for Caldwell Titcomb, invaluable friend of the arts in New England, yesterday in the Memorial Church at Harvard University. He passed away on June 12th of leukemia at the age of 84. The ceremony was moving and heartfelt, with memories shared about Caldwell as a friend, composer, critic, grammarian, teacher, brother, long-time President of the Elliot Norton Awards, and researcher in African-American history.

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Book Review: “Savage Kiss” — Children’s Criminal Crusade

January 2, 2021
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Maybe the greatest value of Saviano’s narratives is that they rebuke the complicity of silence; they are acts of dissent that refuse to kowtow to the oppressive omertà.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — May 28

May 28, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Book Review: “Mark Twain” — The Life of a Champion of Liberating Irreverence

July 18, 2025
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At its best, Mark Twain emerges in this biography as much a live wire as ever: brash, outspoken, and overflowing with exasperating contradictions.

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Theater Interview: Boston Public Works – Seven Playwrights Making a New Road Map for New Plays

November 2, 2014
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Self-production, I think, is for artists who also are entrepreneurs who have a burning desire to get their voice heard.

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Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — Who Cares?

February 11, 2015
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The media tools now available have brought us closer than ever to getting the amusements we want as soon as we want them, which puts all forms of art music at a serious disadvantage.

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Coming Attractions: June 8 Through 23 — What Will Light Your Fire

June 8, 2025
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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