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Fuse Film Feature: Confessions of a Movie Critic — Waiting for His Next Close-up

January 30, 2014
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Who doesn’t want to be in a movie?

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Poetry Review: “Noon until Night” — The Whole Struggle

October 25, 2017
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Comparisons and guesses about influence aside, poet Richard Hoffman’s voice is individual, original, and strong.

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Book Review: “On The Couch” — A Beautiful Visual Tour

July 30, 2018
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On the Couch is an extraordinary coffee table book for anyone interested in “recumbency” and how the couch became the icon of psychoanalysis.

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Theater Review: Carlo Goldoni’s Classic Comedy Goes Mod

May 4, 2012
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The Broadway run of The National Theatre’s production of One Man, Two Guvnors, based on The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni, has been nominated for 7 Tony Awards. Here is Fuse Critic Ian Thal’s review of the National Theatre Live broadcast of the British production, first posted in September, 2011.

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World Books: In Search of a Saudi Tolstoy

March 2, 2010
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By Bill Marx Saudi Arabian author Abdo Khal won the $60,000 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the Arab Booker) for his novel Spewing Sparks as Big as Castles, which is also known as She Throws Sparks. Taleb Alrefai, who served as chair for this year’s panel of judges, said, “The winning novel is a brilliant…

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Music Review: Postmodern Jukebox—Reverence for the Past, With a Dash of Irony

November 13, 2015
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Postmodern Jukebox dials the clock back on contemporary pop.

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Fuse Book Review: Cynthia Ozick — The Value of “Exaggerated Contempt”

July 20, 2016
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For Cynthia Ozick, critics connect the dots; they inform us about what kind of culture we’re living in.

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Film Review: “Summer of Soul” — A Classic Concert Resurrected

July 4, 2021
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Summer of Soul is two hours of rapturous entertainment and pointed political commentary — neither of which has gone out of style 52 years later.

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Book Review: The Poetic Vision of Larry Eigner — A Gravitational Aesthetic Force Field

February 7, 2024
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Jennifer Bartlett’s fine biography is a capstone to a steady solidification of respect for this innovative poet’s art and legacy.

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Arts Remembrance: “Why Not Say What Happened” — Morris Dickstein’s Memoir About Living a Life of the Mind

March 29, 2021
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RIP Morris Dickstein, among the last of the generation of the New York School of Jewish intellectuals, scholar/critics of massive knowledge and intellect who came from humble backgrounds.

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