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Film Review: A Game Well Worth Playing

July 11, 2011
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QUEEN TO PLAY is an offbeat feminist fable, set in a gorgeous but dirt-poor and provincial part of Corsica.

Coming Attractions: April 10 through 19 — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

April 10, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

Fuse Coming Attractions — November 15–24: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

November 15, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

Book Review: Flann O’Brien at 100 — An Enduring Comic Genius

December 20, 2011
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There is no way that The Arts Fuse was going to miss celebrating the 100th birthday of one of the greatest satirists of the 20th century — Irish genius Flann O’Brien.

Book Review: The Boston Jazz Chronicles — Indispensible History

November 19, 2012
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Richard Vacca’s The Boston Jazz Chronicles will be a foundational document that other researchers will turn to again and again as they delve into more specific niches of Boston jazz history and unearth as yet unknown artifacts of this era and its neglected body of music.

Literary View: Poetry Slams in the 21st Century

January 23, 2010
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By Kate Vander Wiede The Cantab, as the regulars called The Cantab Lounge, is like a quirky not-quite-speakeasy complete with a narrow stairwell leading below street level and smoke-perfumed attendees. This night, bass chords shake the ceiling, courtesy of the band headlining one floor up. Dim lights hardly illuminate the cramped room, which is lined…

Book Commentary: Summer Reads for Adventurous Minds

June 24, 2010
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Poetry’s secret, it seems to me, consists of two ingredients: a love of this world and a curiosity about metaphysics. – Durs Grünbein, The Bars of Atlantis I resist the idea that books for the beach have to go down as easy as piña coladas. My eccentric and eclectic list of fiction and non-fiction in…

Book Review: Helen Dunmore’s Terrific “Exposure”

April 28, 2016
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There are resemblances to Virginia Woolf in Helen Dunmore’s awareness that much of family life lies in what is not said as much as in what is said.

WATCH CLOSELY: “The Exorcist” — The Devil and the Deep State

March 14, 2018
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TV’s The Exorcist reinvents its source material for an occult-savvy (not to mention cinema-savvy) audience.

Book Review: “Rodney Kills at Night” — Engaging Company

August 5, 2023
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Poe Ballantine is often compared to Charles Bukowski and Jack Kerouac. I’d say he’s closer to the former than the latter, but he’s more polished than either and funnier than both put together.

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