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Book Interview: “Bad Environmentalism” — Laughing at Gloom and Doom

March 17, 2019
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Mainstream environmentalism is not just serious and sanctimonious, it also happens to be very white and very heteronormative.

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Book Review: “Epic Annette” — What is Heroism?

March 10, 2023
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Surely the selfless subject of Anne Weber’s Epic Annette qualifies beyond doubt as a true heroine of the twentieth century?

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Book Review: “To the Back of Beyond” — Extreme Ambiguity

September 21, 2017
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Evidently, plain-spoken language plus doubt and apprehension equate to novels that, once opened, are very hard to put down.

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Poetry Reviews: Paul Muldoon and Others

November 27, 2021
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Paul Muldoon is anxious to file dispatches from the front lines of Our Lives Now. That is one of the characteristics that separates him from most other poets writing today.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — July 9

July 9, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Book Review: “Dickens and Prince” — Together Again?

March 17, 2023
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The overall thesis of this short book/long essay is that both Charles Dickens and Prince embody a certain kind of rare genius combined with a freakishly inexhaustible work ethic.

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Music Feature: Wagner’s Ring Cycle in HD — The MET at the Mall Goes Global

October 5, 2010
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The bottom line is that Opera in HD is a huge hit all over the United States and is transforming the art form as it succeeds. Via The Met: Live in HD, New Englanders can experience parts of Wagner’s Ring Cycle without going to New York beginning on October 9 at 1 p.m. with the…

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Author Interview: Commentator Elie Mystal on Laws That Piss Him Off — And You Should Be Pissed Off as Well

March 26, 2025
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“I didn’t want to write just another “orange man bad” book. I wanted to remind people that the world exists in the way that it does on purpose. We have chosen to live this way. We could choose tomorrow to NOT live this way and things would be better.”

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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…

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Arts Commentary/Interview: The Climate Crisis and Theater — A Playwright’s Perspective

November 28, 2022
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Do we feel the environment breakdown in our gut? Will people looking back see art that conveyed the existential threat of the emergency?

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