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Film Review: “There Are No Lions in Tel Aviv” — The Story of Rabbi Doolittle

June 19, 2020
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This is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen, one that I plan to view again and again.

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Book Review: Alexandria’s Sphinx — “Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography”

August 26, 2025
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Unable to place Cavafy in a holistic context, momentum is never sustained. Key points remain scattered, unintegrated.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: June 19 through 28— What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 19, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.

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Fuse Book Review: The Poetics of Surprise

February 14, 2007
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Since it is the innovators who make up the real history of the novel, Milan Kundera muses on the increasing tenuousness of this tradition of eccentric innovation. He also charts how the new arises from a collision between forgetting and remembering images of the past. The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts. By Milan Kundera.…

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Coming Attractions: April 22 through May 8– What Will Light Your Fire

April 22, 2018
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Theater Review: “The Wakeville Stories” – Theater as Civic Ritual

June 26, 2015
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Dramatist Laurence Carr has a gift for vivid characterization and for creating a concrete sense of time and place.

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Book Commentary: “Pandemic!” by Slavoj Žižek — Choosing Reality and Survival Over Panic and Barbarism

May 27, 2020
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“In a crisis we are all Socialists,” goes an old adage. But can that instinct be trusted in an increasingly barbaric world?

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Film Review: “Lo and Behold” — Oh, Werner!

August 19, 2016
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We’re very fortunate that this kooky cinematic icon finds the internet interesting; this film is one of the most interesting documentaries of the year so far.

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Test Poetry Page

August 26, 2020

BLIZZARD/Cole The most incongruous words in “Face of the Bee,” the opening poem of Henri Cole’s Blizzard, a loose, unrhymed sonnet of the kind made fashionable by Robert Lowell in the early 1970s, fall in the twelfth line of the poem: “cisgender male.” They plant a flag that signals two very different elements of the…

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Book Review: The Remarkable Life of Storm Jameson — Attention Tenderly Paid

January 2, 2015
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After reading this scholarly and accessible biography, I am convinced that Storm Jameson’s life is a must for anyone fascinated by the history of women writers in the 20th century.

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