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Theater Review: “Unveiled” — An Exploration in Understanding

January 22, 2018
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As a storyteller, Rohina Malik exudes warmth and humanity.

Poetry Review: “If Men, Then” — Verse on Present Day Firing Lines

November 17, 2019
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Because Eliza Griswold’s poems often take place in war zones, she’s always provocative — even when she is tendentious.

Book Review: Violence, a la the Freudian and Biblical canon

July 28, 2011
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Short Fuse thinks Russell Jacoby’s “Bloodlust: On the Roots of Violence from Cain and Abel to the Present” is an unconvincing mix of refurbished Freudianism and Genesis.

Film Festival Reviews: New York Film Festival’s 2025 “Revivals”

October 2, 2025
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Because NYFF’s “Revivals” supplement showcases new restorations, the expectation is that these movies, including art films from around the world, should become more widely available down the road.

Music Commentary: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — Ave Sine Vale

July 2, 2015
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The great mistake we make as listeners or viewers is passivity. Music deserves and needs our active involvement.

The Arts on the Stamps of the World — May 1

May 1, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

WATCH CLOSELY: “Requiem” — A Stylish, But Uneven, Occult Thriller

April 5, 2018
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If you’ve seen The Wicker Man and/or Hot Fuzz, you may recognize and appreciate the tone of these folk horror underpinnings.

Music Review: Favorite Albums of 2013

January 7, 2014
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The greatest album of the year isn’t even an album per se. There is a lot of hoopla surrounding the leak of what might be the debut album of elusive British lo-fi R&B artist Jai Paul.

Visual Arts: My Main Man Mani — A Persian Preacher Who Made Art and Founded a Religion

March 10, 2011
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I have a weakness for cosmic audacity. The history of religions, which I studied before art history, is full of examples that give me a deep inner thrill.

Classical Music CD Reviews: ROCO’s “Visions Take Flight,” Nordic Affect’s “He(a)r,” and “John Cage: Guitar.”

December 23, 2018
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Visions Take Flight is one of those rarest of accomplishments: a contemporary music album that’s a sheer joy to listen to, from start to finish. And John Cage on guitar? Why not?

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