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Theater Review: “KNYUM” — Opening up to the World

January 17, 2018
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KNYUM is unlike anything else New England theatre currently has to offer — in the best possible way.

Fuse Book Review: “And Again” — Biological Engineering, Predictable Construction

February 13, 2016
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What’s most interesting about And Again is precisely what gets the least narrative attention.

Film Review: “Society of the Snow” — Unspeakable Tragedy, Unstoppable Survival

January 7, 2024
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This is an epic, breathtakingly moving, and unforgettable film about an elemental fight against cold, starvation, and fear.

PEN World Voices — The Price of Self-Absorption

May 12, 2008
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by Bill Marx A quiet but insistent source of frustration among some of the authors at the PEN World Voices Festival in New York turned out to be the amount of attention garnered by China and its brutal treatment of writers. All agreed that PEN’s petition to free imprisoned dissenting authors in the country was…

Film Review: “Christine” — Dramatizing an On-Air Suicide

October 22, 2016
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Christine is less interested in serving up a moral lesson or providing sociological analysis than generating sympathy.

Book Review: In Alberto Moravia’s Creative Laboratory — “Two Friends”

September 13, 2011
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The brilliance of Alberto Moravia’s cool diagnostic vision — sleek, clear, cruel, and existential no matter how emotional the conflict — puts us off. His male protagonists often self-consciously analyze their puerility to the point of comic masochism.

The Arts on Stamps of the World — July 29

July 29, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

Visual Arts Review: “Armenia!” — Art, Religion, and Trade at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

December 18, 2018
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Armenian cultural history has always been about survival: between Armenians preserving their art within the shifting boundaries of their homeland, and carrying their art beyond the country’s borders.

Arts Remembrance: Mario Diacono, 1930-2025 — A Tribute

November 1, 2025
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Mario Diacono’s works were a guide – a guide to see and think deeply about words and images.

Fuse Theater Review: Is This Musical Really Necessary?

September 1, 2007
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After four movie versions of Alexandre Dumas’s nineteenth-century novel, does it make any sense to make a musical out of The Three Musketeers? The film versions efficiently present the book’s mix of comic book mayhem and romance and are available on DVD and video. By Bill Marx I can’t think of any successful swashbuckling musicals,…

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