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Book Review: “On Frost and Eliot” — No Contest

April 10, 2025
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The value of “On Frost and Eliot” is sending the reader spinning out of its own text and back to poems by two of the major poets of the 20th century, each of whom has suffered from the vagaries of fashion, both in popularity and neglect.

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Theater Review: “Beyond Words” — Homage to a Brainy Bird

March 26, 2024
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“Beyond Words” tells an important story in an entertaining as well as a delightfully educational way.

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WATCH CLOSELY: Black Mirror S5: Now More Digital Than Ever!

June 14, 2019
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All three episodes have intriguing storylines, with plenty of human pathos and drama: but I admit to finding the first and third episodes a bit too digitally-focused for my taste.

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Book Review: Rachel Hadas'”Pastorals” — Everything We Want Poetry To Do

July 24, 2025
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Rachel Hadas’s book of prose poems is a set of meditations grounded in a life well lived and much observed, an experimental field for examining the nature of [human] potentialities.

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Short Fuse: Xiangqi Fever

June 15, 2009
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By Harvey Blume To play Xiangqi (Chinese chess) as earnestly as I have been lately is to revisit a familiar situation, one in which I am at the gateway of another culture, hungry for the experience, but positioned as a junior. That was the case with African drumming and with neurological difference, for example, especially…

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Fuse News: A Quick Guide to The Outside the Box Festival

July 12, 2013
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Participants of Ted Cutler’s Outside the Box Festival recognize there could have been more publicity about the event.

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December Short Fuses — Materia Critica

December 3, 2022
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Coming Attractions: December 26 Through January 10 — What Will Light Your Fire

December 26, 2021
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Compiled by Bill Marx As the age of Covid-19 wanes (or waxes?), Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music. Please check with venues about whether the event is available by streaming or is in person. More offerings will be added as they come in. Film The Arts Fuse…

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Film Review: “Let Them All Talk” — Angst of Many Flavors

December 30, 2020
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The film feels amateurish in the most complimentary Stendhalien sense: created in a spirit of play, rather than a sweaty effort to advance a studio agenda.

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Arts Remembrance: A Tribute to Poet and Writer John Ash

January 21, 2020
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We were both English-speaking ex-patriots living in Istanbul, and John Ash’s poetry spoke eloquently to that shared experience.

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