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Book Review: A Treasury of Tall Tales That Make Opera Fun

September 3, 2020
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Author Ethan Mordden serves up plenty of entertaining yarns, sometimes as exaggerated as the genre to which they pay homage.

Theater Commentary: Trump, Julius Caesar, and Political Farce

June 19, 2017
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If the ballyhoo around the Public Theater’s Julius Caesar is a sign of the times, then we have a lot more than Trump to fear.

Commentary: #MeToo and Dethroning Rock Deities

January 2, 2018
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We have the obligation to look behind the music and the culture that glorified and perpetuated it.

Film Commentary: Spoiling “Oil!”

March 5, 2009
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By Gary Schwartz Director Paul Thomas Anderson is no Upton Sinclair. Half an hour into Paul Thomas Anderson’s film There Will be Blood, shown on Dutch television the other night, I told Loekie how intensely happy I was that the film existed. A few months ago I read the book on which the film is…

Streaming Docs: “Jawline” — The Delusion-Soaked World of Teen Internet Influencers

August 31, 2019
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A Screenager Star is Born?

Book Review: “On the Isle of Antioch” — It is Believable? Does it Matter?

February 5, 2024
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If this is a fable, is there a moral?

The Arts on Stamps of the World — December 7

December 7, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

Book Review: Miranda July’s “The First Bad Man” — Transforming the Ordinary into the Extraordinary

January 13, 2015
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Miranda July’s originality of vision rests on an acute (and astute) awareness of the cosmic and the quotidian.

Rethinking the Repertoire #6: Felix Mendelssohn’s “Die erste Walpurgisnacht”

March 1, 2016
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Felix Mendelssohn remains one of the West’s most underrated composers.

Book Review: “The Atlas of Unbuilt Architecture” — Alarming and Inspiring Visions of “Castles in the Air”

July 25, 2024
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These designs serve as a forceful testament to the endless possibilities of architecture, to the imaginative power of engineering.

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