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A brilliant new novel explores how the search for his family’s fate during the Holocaust nearly costs a man his sanity. “Götz and Meyer” by David Albahari. Translated from the Serbian by Ellan Elias-Bursac. (Harcourt, 176 pp., $23) By Tess Lewis “We need so little to imagine another world, don’t we?” asks the narrator of…
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
Read MoreGish Jen’s novel about New England small-town life in the new millennium, “World and Town,” has just come out in a paperback. We greeted the hardback edition of the book with a Judicial Review, a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts. It is a good time to highlight the innovative approach again. The aim is to combine editorial integrity with the community—making power of interactivity.
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Translator Stephen Mitchell serves Catullus best with the poems that don’t demand cleverness, where the sentiment is at least seemingly direct.
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Burning the Books sometimes turns into a disturbing chronicle of mankind’s elemental hostility to learning: barbarians often first targeted libraries and archives.
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Read MoreWondering about what to give the arts and culture lover on your gift list? No problem — the sage writers for The Arts Fuse come to the rescue.
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This week’s poem: Ted Pearson’s Selections from “String Theory”
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For decades the MFA gave Dalí the cold shoulder, so it’s great that this maiden voyage is non-puritanical and open to the artist’s less than wholesome instincts to provoke.
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025