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Book Review: Benito Pérez Galdós’s “Tristana” — Liberation, Though Off-Kilter

January 27, 2015
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Tristana is Ibsen’s Doll’s House played as a gaunt farce, a vision of feminism as icy egotism rather than individual liberation.

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Doc Talk: Eyes in Gaza — The Boston Palestine Film Festival Looks at Harsh Realities

October 13, 2023
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Cinema at its best is a a place where seemingly irresolvable conflicts can find, if not resolution, then some common ground.

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Doc Talk: Wicked Queer at 40 — Embracing the Imagination

April 5, 2024
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Transformative narratives shape the documentaries in the 40th annual Wicked Queer Film Festival.

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Book Review: Herman Melville and the Solace of Movement

November 28, 2010
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“Life, you see, is a lonely business . . . When there is a storm, it’s best to turn into the teeth of it. Don’t fly away, allowing an evil wind to come upon you from the stern. That’s our weakest part. We’re rib cage and metal up front. The bow is always best. Head…

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Film Review: Bert Stern — Original Madman

May 5, 2013
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What about Bert Stern, the artist? He deserves credit for bringing fashion photography into the modernist moment in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Film Reviews: This Year’s Provincetown Film Festival — Exploding with Queer-Subject Features and Documentaries

June 17, 2025
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This year was the 27th annual festival, and blessed as always by the fairy-dust magical presence of summertime resident John Waters.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World —October 20

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

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Rethinking the Repertoire #5: Leonard Bernstein’s “Songfest”

October 19, 2015
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Bernstein’s Songfest is Exhibit A in the argument that American orchestras and conductors need to champion the music of these shores.

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Fuse News: Buy American? Non-American Bands in American Commercials

April 3, 2013
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It was while watching the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament that I stumbled upon an interesting trend: non-American rock music being used in American advertising campaigns.

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Book Review: A Memorial to Lucette Lagnado’s Two Remarkable Memoirs

August 29, 2019
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To have such a remarkably courageous voice as Lucette Lagnado’s silenced forever at such a young age is, simply, not fair.

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