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Book Review: Mark Greif’s “Against Everything” — But For Nothing?

October 25, 2016
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Mark Greif’s analyses can be sharply counter-intuitive..

Pop Review: Jean Dawson’s “Pixel Bath” — Awash in Riches

December 9, 2020
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Jean Dawson’s Pixel Bath is one of the most exciting releases I’ve heard this year.

Theater Review: “Carousel” — One More Spin of the Wheel

April 6, 2025
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Despite all the Boston Lyric Opera pageantry and talent, “Carousel”‘s trip to the 21st century turns out to be bumpy.

Film Review: “Lo and Behold” — Oh, Werner!

August 19, 2016
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We’re very fortunate that this kooky cinematic icon finds the internet interesting; this film is one of the most interesting documentaries of the year so far.

Book Interview: Novelist and Short-Story Writer Nathan Englander Is Happy to Go Back to Basics

September 25, 2012
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Nathan Englander’s first play, “The Twenty-Seventh Man,” opens at the Public Theater in New York tonight. Fuse Editor Bill Marx spoke to the acclaimed, best-selling writer about the script and the production when Englander visited Wellesley College recently.

Television/Music Review: Next at the Kennedy Center — A Joni Mitchell Songbook, on PBS

November 13, 2022
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I put Joni Mitchell on a short list of the most remarkable pop music artists of the ’60s and early ’70s. Longevity of excellence isn’t the point here, just peak incandescence.

Book Review: “Natura Morta” — A Powerful Still Life in Prose

June 2, 2014
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The omniscient narrator in Natura Morta is flawlessly neutral, allowing the images, minimal action, and characters’ reactions to the events of this single day in a Roman square to tell the story.

Book Review: Cowboys and the Wild East — “In the Dragon’s Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century”

October 25, 2021
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Proceeding largely country by country, Sebastian Strangio penetratingly explores Southeast Asia’s multifaceted struggle with its behemoth Chinese neighbor.

Jazz Commentary Drill Down: Michel Camilo’s “Concerto for Piano and Orchestra”

February 1, 2012
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Fuse Jazz Critic Steve Elman is currently surveying works that illuminate the tradition of the jazz-influenced piano concerto. His series began with an examination of Chick Corea’s current recording, The Continents. In part two, he takes a look at eight works by jazz composers that precede the release of Corea’s work. This post is a…

Stage Interview: Thomas Derrah on the Appeal of “Red”

January 13, 2012
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“Red” is about creativity and destruction, Apollonian rigor and Dionysian instinct, fathers and sons, love and rejection, life and death.

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