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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2024

December 16, 2024
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Our demanding critics choose the best films (along with some disappointments) of the year. And there is plenty of disagreement.

Musician Interview: Death From Above 1979 Celebrates the 20th Anniversary of its Classic Debut Album

September 26, 2024
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This year marks “You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine”‘s 20th anniversary and, in homage, Death From Above 1979 has slowly but surely been releasing re-recorded tracks from the disc over the past few months.

Book Reviews: “Grey Bees” and “Lucky Breaks” — Civilian Life in Wartime Ukraine

September 1, 2022
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Neither book is primarily directly about the war itself. Rather, in sometimes oblique ways, they show the price paid by Ukraine’s non-combatant civilians.

Film Reviews: At the Toronto International Film Festival — in “The Bibi Files,” Netanyahu Fumes on Leaked Tapes

September 25, 2024
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“The Bibi Files” is a documentary that should be seen before its revelations, caught on tape, are overtaken by a larger war; the Palestinian no-budget drama “To a Land Unknown” presents a credible picture of refugee life.

Opera Review: Boston Midsummer Opera Provides the Perfect Summer Break

July 22, 2016
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Boston Midsummer Opera may be performing in a new location, but all their virtues have arrived at Watertown intact.

Film Review: “The Great Postal Heist” — Clear and Present Danger to a Great American Institution

January 31, 2022
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This effective advocacy documentary charts the 21st-century decline of a great American institution (one established in the U.S. Constitution). It’s also a wake-up call alerting us that things didn’t have to happen this way.

Book Review: “The Barefoot Woman” — A Survivor’s Eulogy

December 19, 2018
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The Barefoot Woman is lyrical but also informative and ethnographic, as much a memoir of a mother as it is of her way of life.

The Arts on Stamps of the World —October 18

October 18, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

Book Review: “A Dog in Georgia” — The Gap Between Privilege and Peril

August 21, 2025
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This is a well-crafted story about the gulf between well-off Americans who can safely ignore power politics in their daily lives (and how many of us are doing just that!) and those at the edge of being oppressed or crushed by them. 

Book Review: “You Have a Friend in 10A” — A Laboratory of a Short Story Collection

June 6, 2022
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You come away from this volume of short stories thinking that sure, Maggie Shipstead does write what she knows — it’s just that she may know everything.

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