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Book Review: The “Lightweight” Gallows Humor of Jean Echenoz

May 29, 2014
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Eschewing harrowing realistic description, Jean Echenoz adopts a jocular sardonic approach to the most gruesome battlefield realities.

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No Medals for Human Rights

June 25, 2008
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By Bill Marx Hu Jia, a freelance writer, civil rights, environmental and AIDS activist, was arrested in 2007 on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power.” Last week the PEN American Center announced it was sending out letters to the Bush Administration and Congressional leaders protesting, fifty days before the start of the Olympics, the…

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — September 20

September 20, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Book Review: Mathematicians in Combat — Michèle Audin’s “One Hundred Twenty-One Days”

April 11, 2016
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Audin scrutinizes political commitment when it is undertaken by representatives of an intellectual discipline detached from the real world.

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Music Interview: Talking to Organist Dr. Lonnie Smith — Soul-Jazz Legend

August 11, 2016
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Jazz organ pioneer Dr. Lonnie Smith comes to the Rockport Jazz Festival.

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Theater Commentary: An Anything-But-Banal Love Story

December 13, 2011
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The play does not address Hannah Arendt’s rationalizations or the reasons for her dedication to Martin Heidegger, though the dramatist’s title hints that it is the banal truth of the irrationality of love.

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Visual Arts Review: Wendy Artin — Translating Marble Onto Paper

November 17, 2011
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Wendy Artin is not just about representation. Her paintings bring up all sorts of questions about the complexities of beauty. How do we build up beauty from matter? What happens to beauty over time? Does an object lose its beauty when time wears away at it?

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Stage Review: Sonic Life on the Office Floor — The Bitter Truth

February 28, 2016
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Okada’s play reflects how skepticism has become the default stance for young adults shellshocked by post-recession economic restructuring.

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Concert Review: Sam Grisman Project and Peter Rowan — Seizing the Moment

June 15, 2025
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There were unscripted song selections whose daring and heart made this concert so much more than a night of old beloved tunes.

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Film Review: Chronicle of a Movie Never Made – “Speer Goes to Hollywood”

November 2, 2021
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Albert Speer’s reputation as a “good Nazi” was this architect’s postwar monument. He spent as much time burnishing that brand after prison as he did when he was rising through the Nazi ranks.

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