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Opera Album Review: Finally on CD — a Searing ’60s Opera from Russia about the Nazi Era

July 2, 2022
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Moissey Vainberg’s opera powerfully evokes the brutality of Hitler’s extermination camps and the moral ambiguity of postwar Germany.

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Theater Review: “The Submission” — An Engaging Script that Falls Short of Its Ambitions

May 18, 2015
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At first, The Submission comes on as an agreeably edgy satire of the automatic embrace of identity politics and political correctness in the academy and popular culture.

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Visual Arts: Ambergris and Alchemy — A Pilgrimage to John Singer Sargent’s “Fumée d’Ambre Gris”

January 27, 2013
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At times I leave off my avid samplings of one entrancement after another in a great museum. Instead, I make a pilgrimage dedicated to a single work, such as John Singer Sargent’s intoxicating woman in white in “Fumée d’Ambre Gris” at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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From the Editor’s Desk: We Turn Twelve — The Future of the Arts Fuse

June 12, 2019
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This funding means that The Arts Fuse will be cranking out the kind of arts coverage you have come to expect for a good time to come.

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Book Review: “Stealing All Transmissions” — How The Clash Conquered America

November 3, 2014
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Stealing All Transmissions is slim, but nearly every page is filled with insight and originality.

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Film Review: At the Fantasia International Film Festival, Part Two

August 30, 2020
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Movies, great or awful, are essential comforts in these nightmarish times. And in my second dispatch of the Fantasia fest, I bring better tidings.

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Book Review: A Compelling Look at the Life of Poet John Keats

May 9, 2013
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There is a steadiness about Nicholas Roe’s writing that is deceptive; the life in the Life does not jump off the page, but it accumulates during the reading so that something of what it felt like to be around John Keats remains, as things do when truly experienced.

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Book Review: A Whirlwind Journey from Memory to Reason — Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science

March 3, 2014
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“Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science” makes a profound claim about the need for cognitive restructuring in the face of information overload.

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Film Review: “High Life” — Messy, Earthy Existentialism, In Outer Space

April 21, 2019
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In space, no one can hear you go extinct.

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Television Review: “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything” — Episodes 1-4

November 30, 2021
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There are three key words in the title: “music,” “change,” and “everything.” At its best, the series convincingly shows how they are linked. Other times, it embraces too much of one at the expense of the other two.

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