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Book Review: “The Infatuations” — Funereal Ruminations on a Murder

August 18, 2013
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Perhaps it is not so much that the characters are thinly developed but that it is hard to make them out through the scrim of their Dostoevskian lucubrations.

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Book Review: “Kraft” — A Pitch Perfect Satire of Neoliberal Dreamin’

November 17, 2020
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A powerful allegory for our techno-crazed, consumption-addicted, soul-crushing times.

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Fuse Commentary: WGBH — No Excuses

July 9, 2012
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WGBH is not even attempting to make any excuses, not bothering to put in the energy to explain why the station isn’t using funding from its supporters to hire first-class journalists or to create news programming that builds community and educates because it challenges, investigates, and digs deeper.

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Coming Attractions: April 10 through 19 — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

April 10, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Coming Attractions: April 2 through 11 — What Will Light Your Fire

March 26, 2017
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Visual Arts: Conservation Conundrums

April 26, 2012
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Art conservation is a very pragmatic field, full of compromises.

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Literary Appreciation: The Late Harold Bloom — Pursuer of “Difficult Pleasures”

October 17, 2019
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“What is the function of literary criticism in a Disinformation Age? Read, reread, describe, evaluate, appreciate: that is the art of literary criticism for the present time.” — Harold Bloom

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Fuse Coming Attractions—November 8–17: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

November 8, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Podcast Review: “The Joe Rogan Experience” — Taking Responsibility for Random Gab?

October 16, 2020
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As amusing and informative as The Joe Rogan Experience can be, a few podcast interviews doth not an actual education make.

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Author Interview: Writer Clive James — Writing Against the Dying of the Light

March 1, 2019
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Imagine a combination of Stephen Colbert (the real one, that is) and John Updike.

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