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Book Review: Reading Literature Behind Bars

December 15, 2016
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Mikita Brottman gets raw, often very funny, and unexpected responses to the masterpieces she puts before her prisoners.

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Coming Attractions: September 19 through October 5 — What Will Light Your Fire

September 19, 2021
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As the age of COVID-19 wanes (or waxes?), Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music. Please check with venues about whether the event is available by streaming or is in person. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Book Review: “All Quiet on the Western Front” — Diagnosing the Illness of War

March 22, 2025
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Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel of an ordinary soldier’s life in the trenches of WWI remains shocking and shattering today.

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Film Reviews: At the Berlin International Film Festival — Two Movies about Workers Under Assault

February 19, 2022
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Two stylistically different films in which workers are exploited and empowered.

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Theater Review: Theatrical Time Machines — Wild Swans and Time of My Life

March 2, 2012
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Both productions play around with chronology in order to show the dark side of history, to unmask convenient illusions of social or personal well-being by juxtaposing the myopia of the past with the payback of the future.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — March 28

March 28, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Rethinking the Repertoire #12 – Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Violin Concerto

May 24, 2017
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich has an uncanny understanding of what instruments can do and how to showcase them best.

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Film Review: “Malcolm & Marie” — Who’s Afraid of Sam Levinson?

February 12, 2021
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This film offers a much more nuanced and self-reflective conversation about authorship, authenticity, creative inspiration, and the role of film criticism than any of its detractors are willing to admit.

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Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

April 4, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up this week.

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Concert Review: Jazz Vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant — Falling in Love Again

February 14, 2024
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Once again, here was the shock in Cécile McLorin Savant’s subversive conceptual daring.

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