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Fuse Book Review: “My Life in Middlemarch” — Expanding the Boundaries of Memoir

January 24, 2014
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I don’t share Rebecca Mead’s awe for “Middlemarch,” but I share her enthusiasm for stretching the envelope of memoir.

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Book Review: “Impossible Owls” — Beauty on the Margins

November 4, 2018
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Brian Phillips uses the essay form to map the limits of America’s cultural-historical imagination, from our highest achievements to our kitschiest expressions of who we think we are, and who we think everyone else is.

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Coming Attractions: August 4 through 20 — What Will Light Your Fire

August 4, 2024
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Coming Attractions: April 21 through May 6 — What Will Light Your Fire

April 21, 2024
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Album Review: Paul Simon’s “Seven Psalms” — A Prophet’s Message to Us All

May 25, 2023
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This album may be too mellow, too grim, too serious for the average listener but hear me: This is an amazing and important work of art, quite possibly the legendary songwriter’s own elegy.

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Visual Arts Review: “Harry Dodge: Works of Love” — Meaning Comes Extra

February 27, 2019
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I fell for the Harry Dodge exhibition, but I confess to not entirely ‘getting the picture.’

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Music Preview: Tedeschi Trucks Band’s Fireside Live Tour Is on Its Way

July 9, 2021
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Regardless of what the future holds, Derek Trucks said that he and his bandmates are grateful for every opportunity to get back in front of live audiences.

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Coming Attractions: Jazz Week 2011 — Spreading the Word

May 2, 2011
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Jazz host Eric Jackson

Thirty years of Eric in the Evening, jazz in public spaces and libraries, jazz ensembles and their social networks, and getting the word out about jazz. (First of a three-part series for Jazz Week.)

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Jazz Album Review: “Drink Plenty Water” — Clifford Jordan’s Swinging Ode to Disruption

June 20, 2023
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I wonder why this fine session was withheld for 49 years. It might be the bitter-sounding texts, or the very fact of vocals in a jazz session.

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Film Review: “Marcella” — A Celebration of a Master of Italian Cuisine

May 13, 2025
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A charming and deeply entertaining documentary about Marcella Hazan and her transformation into a world-famous cookbook author and influencer.

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