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Book Review: A Progressive Manifesto — “Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream”

May 4, 2023
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Journalist Alissa Quart is hardly the first on the left to lament the dark underbelly of American individualism.

Arts Feature: Best Music Documentaries of 2021 — and Some Disappointments

December 26, 2021
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This list consists of recent music documentaries that I streamed over the past year — a couple of duds as well as the standouts.

Film Review: Not Enough Joy in Director Chris Marker’s “Le Joli Mai”

December 6, 2013
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“Le Joli Mai” is serious and sober, a bit of a downer, climaxing in a lengthy interview with a dullard union official about why he supports the French Communist Party.

Book Commentary: Together Again — C.K. Stead and Janet Frame

September 3, 2008
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Another neglected master from New Zealand — writer C.K. Stead by Bill Marx I just noticed that a week before Janet Frame’s previously unpublished story “Gorse is not People” appeared in “The New Yorker” the magazine published a poem by another fine New Zealand author, C.K. Stead. He not only knew Frame at the time…

Film Review: “I Called Him Morgan” — A Superb Jazz Documentary

August 8, 2017
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I Called Him Morgan has been lauded as one of the best films of the year, and rightfully so.

Film Review: Boston MFA French Film Festival — “Party Girl,” Gray Panther Division

July 23, 2015
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Party Girl has won a plethora of festival awards, including two at Cannes in 2014.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

November 30, 2023
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This week’s poem: DeWitt Henry’s “From the Horse’s Mouth”

Rock Album Review: “Highway Butterfly: The Songs of Neal Casal” — A Winning Tribute

November 14, 2021
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The artists on this expansive tribute frequent different genres, but they find ways into these songs that play to their respective strengths while also deftly showcasing the underlying sturdiness of Neal Casal’s material.

Fuse Coming Attractions: April 3 through 12 — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

April 3, 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.

Coming Attractions: December 12 through 20 — What Will Light Your Fire

December 4, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.

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