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Book Review: “Culture Crash” — The People Who Followed Their Bliss Off a Cliff

January 13, 2015
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Truth is, the fraying of the middle class is not just something that has happened to creatives.

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Book Review: “In the Land of Good Living” — Satisfying Your Gonzo Curiosity

July 22, 2020
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Ah, Florida, “the grease trap under America’s George Foreman Grill”: not just “weird America,” also “impending America.”

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Theater Review: “The Submission” — An Engaging Script that Falls Short of Its Ambitions

May 18, 2015
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At first, The Submission comes on as an agreeably edgy satire of the automatic embrace of identity politics and political correctness in the academy and popular culture.

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Jazz Album Review: Exactly on Time — Kenny Wheeler Legacy’s “Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores”

February 19, 2025
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An excellent new album by the ad hoc ensemble Kenny Wheeler Legacy. It is impossible not to think of how the great trumpeter Kenny Wheeler would have sounded over these updated arrangements with such top-drawer musicians and excellent production.

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Lake House Delivers Soft Ripples of Romance

June 13, 2006
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The new movie, “The Lake House,” which is inspired by the South Korean sci-fi romance “Siworae,” reunites “Speed” co-stars Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in considerably more mellow and mature roles.

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Visual Arts Interview: “The Way We Live Now” — Blending Modernist Architecture and Contemporary Art

March 18, 2015
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“Working on The Way We Live Now was a natural process of learning about modernist architecture and the dominating visions of figures such as Le Corbusier, Mies, and Adolf Loos.”

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

August 31, 2023
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This week’s poem — Ish Klein’s “Were You Heading For Wish Mountain?”

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Theater Review: A Gripping “Man in Snow” at the Gloucester Stage Company

October 10, 2016
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Man in Snow encourages us to reflect on our own bit of mortality. We don’t probably take the time to do that enough.

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Literary Appreciation: D. H. Lawrence’s “Women in Love” at 100

September 18, 2020
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I hope this centennial will inspire readers to immerse themselves in this enormously important, rich, and vibrant work.

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Book Review: “Dirt” — Trekking through the French Food Industry

May 10, 2020
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Dirt has the unsurprising effect of making you hungry; if your mind wanders as you are reading, you’ll probably find yourself thinking of food.

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