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Visual Arts: Simon Fujiwara at Harvard’s Carpenter Center — A Canny, Wildly Funny Lens on Modern Ideas

November 2, 2014
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Simon Fujiwara epitomizes the new model of a successful avant-garde artist in the world today.

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Film Review: Should We Fear Miranda July’s “Future”?

August 12, 2011
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THE FUTURE, director/actor Miranda July’s followup to 2005’s ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW is brave, unexpectedly poignant and devastatingly sad.

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Music Commentary: Analyzing the Greatness of Brian Wilson’s “God Only Knows”

July 5, 2025
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I hope this close look makes clear the exquisite craftsmanship that went into “God Only Knows.” But for many of us, the song has a magic that goes beyond the mere exercise of compositional skill, even skill of a very high order.

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Author Interview: Roberta Silman — Taking Up “Heart-work”

March 20, 2025
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“Heart-work,” Roberta Silman’s new collection of stories, looks at the knotty intricacies of domestic life.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Via Dolorosa” — An Innocent Abroad in Israel

January 10, 2016
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Via Dolorosa would have been more effective if it had taken the form of a travel essay rather than a performance piece.

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Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

March 21, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up this week.

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Book Review: “The Bottom of the Jar” — An Indelible Glimpse of Moroccan Life

April 25, 2013
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Moroccan poet Abdellatif Laâbi’s autobiographical fiction draws deeply on his own childhood in Fez during the late 1940s and especially the 1950s.

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Short Fuse Fiction: Boomer — part 1

February 14, 2011
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Boomers: part 1 By Harvey Blume. ** He lay there watching names scroll by in his head. Credits on screen, white on black background. Last Waltz Boomers Class Reunion Names. He thinks of names of dogs he had known, also cats, goats, ex-lovers. Most things ex by now, most everything ex. Ex-bladder control. Ex-cardiac tissue.…

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Fuse Film Review: The Arlington International Film Festival Kicks off 4th Season with Boffo “Botso”

October 22, 2014
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Botso teaches children the joie de vivre of music and he is remarkably successful.

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Coming Attractions: March 24 through April 9 — What Will Light Your Fire

March 24, 2019
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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