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Theater Review: Blue Man Group — A Sugar High, Spray-Painted Blue

November 4, 2023
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The “new” version of the Blue Man Group is all mayhem, all the time.

Visual Arts Review: Mark Pharis and George Mason — Beautiful Micro-Infusions of Chaos

October 5, 2015
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The pieces in this exhibition are apt examples of just how smart and complex purely ‘decorative’ objects can be.

Poetry Review: Carolynn Kingyens’s “Coupling” — Art as a Means of Survival

February 5, 2022
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In this collection, Carolynn Kingyens discloses what lies behind the veneer of our relationships.

Book Review: “The Talking Drum” – Gentrification From A to B

June 11, 2020
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Despite her story’s potential for uncomfortable confrontations and revelations, the author chooses to pack the vicissitudes of her novel’s changing neighborhoods and their inhabitants’ lives into a neat and tidy package.

Opera Review: A Triumphant Bang of a “Rienzi” From Odyssey Opera

September 17, 2013
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For their debut on Sunday, Odyssey Opera and conductor Gil Rose could hardly have picked a more spectacular, unfamiliar epic than they did.

Book Review: “Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class”

October 17, 2023
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Dan Canon provides not only the statistics but powerful stories to demonstrate the extent to which plea bargaining has bankrupted the justice system

Classical CD Reviews: Vienna Philharmonic’s 2017 New Year’s Concert and Previn plays Previn

February 5, 2017
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Gustavo Dudamel takes over the reins of the Vienna Philhamronic’s annual New Year’s concert; a disc of chamber music by Andre Previn.

Fuse News: Elizabethan Genius Gets Its Due — An Edition of Ben Jonson For the Ages

February 4, 2014
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The “Cambridge Jonson” volumes are available online, and the site is a bibliographical joy to behold, Ben Jonson’s plays, poems, masques, and prose arranged in chronological order and in a searchable format.

Book Review: “Emmaus” — A Fictional Puzzle Wrapped in a Spiritual Enigma

May 13, 2012
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Alessandro Baricco’s novella Silk, filled with inchoate erotic longings for which there is no explanation, became an international bestseller. Emmaus, his latest book in translation, also contains mysteries.

Music Review: Faux Folk of Bruce Springsteen

May 8, 2006
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Bruce Springsteen’s latest album, widely billed as his homage to folk music, is a tribute to Pete Seeger “We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions,” Bruce Springsteen. By James Marcus It’s hard to pin down exactly when my Bruce Springsteen problem began. As a teenager I worshipped the guy, and still recall a blistering 1977 show…

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