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October Short Fuses – Materia Critica

October 7, 2021
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

Fuse Book Review: The Novels of Mathias Énard — Probing the Intersection of Politics and Conscience

October 24, 2014
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Although Street of Thieves is less accomplished than Zone, it once again displays how Mathias Énard is seeking new ways to talk political issues in precise, often gripping prose.

Jazz Review: Vijay Iyer Sextet at Sanders Theater — Speak, Memory

March 13, 2017
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This is music that says things that cannot be said any other way, music that cannot wear its heart on its sleeve.

Book Reviews: Three Very Different Architecture Books

February 21, 2025
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A trio of reviews of volumes on structures on paper and in the world.

Dance/Music Review: See Dave Lead — Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra

April 8, 2013
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You have to appreciate a guy who expressed his concern for both the drought on the Texas plains and the local arts community’s drought in terms of cancelled jazz programming on WGBH and the closing of the BOSTON PHOENIX.

Film Review: Building a Better Cannibal — “Hannibal Rising”

February 20, 2007
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French actor Gaspard Ulliel stars in a surprisingly classy prequel in the Hannibal Lecter saga. By Betsy Sherman Considering that the road from the 1991 movie “The Silence of the Lambs” to “Hannibal Rising” consists of a dreadfully over-the-top sequel (the 2001 “Hannibal”) and a decent remake (the 2002 “Red Dragon,” from a novel which…

The Arts on the Stamps of the World — March 6

March 6, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

Television Review: “The Eddy” — Damien Chazelle and Jazz — Love/Hate or Hate/Love?

May 11, 2020
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One of the show’s impressive accomplishments is that its creators managed to find musicians who could act.

Book Review: “The Science of Abolition” — See No Evil

May 18, 2021
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Oh yes, they thought that to treat human beings like livestock was backward and doomed and obsolete and unscientific and fatally inefficient, but if any of them thought it was indefensibly cruel and morally intolerable, they show no awareness by the evidence of this book.

Culture Vulture: The Met in New York or The Met in HD?

October 16, 2010
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I’ve been ruined by the Met at the Mall. Despite the worn-out, industrial carpeting and the popcorn and the lack of glamor, there are great advantages in seeing opera at the movies these days with state-of-the-art technology, especially the sound. By Helen Epstein. After spending most of the last opera season at the Burlington Mall…

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