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Book Interview: Translator Julie Rose on the Lyrical Power of Émile Zola’s “Doctor Pascal”

May 12, 2021
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Published in August of 2020, Oxford University Press’s English translation of Doctor Pascal marked the first time that Émile Zola’s 20-book Les Rougon-Macquart series was available in print under one publisher.

At the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival — “My Imaginary Country” Looks at Chile, Where Protests Fill the Streets Again  

September 25, 2022
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Reviews of three new documentaries at TIFF: My Imaginary Country, To Kill a Tiger, and Miucha: The Voice of Bossa Nova.

Visual Arts Interview: A Conversation with deCordova’s Sarah Montross

March 4, 2018
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In this exhibition, I wanted to focus on the screen as a threshold between realms and to ask questions around its materiality, its power. 

Rethinking the Repertoire: Postlude

June 13, 2018
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The moral should be to err in favor of the audacious. That’s what this world – and this art form – require.

The Arts Fuse Turns 5: The Future of Arts Journalism is Now. Help Us Make it Happen.

June 24, 2012
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As a long time arts critic for print, broadcast, and the Web, the potential for cultural coverage online strikes me then and now as exhilarating. The challenge for The Arts Fuse is to foster dialogue that articulates the value of the arts in our lives.

Book Review: Dystopia as Our Future — Antoine Volodine’s “Post-Exotic” Oeuvre

September 8, 2015
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Antoine Volodine is a master of the prolonged, very prolonged, tongue-in-cheek spoof. But he is also dead serious.

Visual Arts Review: Emotion, Time, and Eros in the work of Damon Lehrer and Rick Berry

September 24, 2011
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Comparing Rick Berry’s expressionist paintings with Damon Lehrer’s exquisitely rendered, classical and contemplative work made me wonder about the expressionist style in general. By this I mean that artistic terrain where the passions, vehemence, or ferocity of the artist so colors the work as to form a powerful but distorting lens through which we see the work.

Jazz Concert Review: The Montreal Jazz Festival Turns 40, Part Two

July 9, 2019
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A sense of promise remains a hallmark of the Montreal Jazz Festival — always end by looking forward.   

The Arts on the Stamps of the World — May 28

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

Book Commentary: Hooked on Phonics? — A Brief Reply to Gary Lutz’s “The Sentence is a Lonely Place”

March 9, 2012
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While sound is certainly important, and language in the proper hands has its own music, syllabic harmonies need not be trumpeted as though they were the foundation of good prose.

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