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Classical Album Review: Short Can Be Good — Three Splendidly Varied One-Act Operas by Lennox Berkeley

August 3, 2022
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I was pleased to encounter all three compact operas. Lennox Berkeley seems to me more and more an admirable, indeed lovable composer, and a bit of a chameleon. I like him in all his various colors.

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Coming Attractions: August 4 through 20 — What Will Light Your Fire

August 4, 2024
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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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Book Review: Clearing the Sill of the World — Thoughts on Ellen Wilbur’s Stories

April 15, 2025
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With visionary daring, Elllen Wilbur leads us into unexpected corners, then transcends them profoundly and beyond expectation. Such stories are more than “moral fictions.” They are soul-shakers.

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Book Review: Remembrance of Lebanon Past (Updated With Interview)

January 6, 2011
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This first novel from Arab-American writer Thérèse Soukar Chehade, who teaches English Language Education at a school in Amherst, Massachusetts, turns out to be a thoughtful family portrait that deals subtly with the variegated experiences of being outsiders in a strange land and the pulls of loss, memory, and desire. Loom by Thérèse Soukar Chehade.…

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Book Review: “Best Food Writing 2017” — Sampling the Annual Epicurean Written Feast

December 26, 2017
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Best Food Writing 2017 presents, as the series always has, a veritable buffet of pleasurable reading for the foodie.

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Shelter in Place Attractions: May 16 through 31– What Will Light Your Home Fires

May 16, 2021
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In the age of COVID-19, Arts Fuse critics have come up with a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music — mostly available by streaming — for the coming weeks. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Book Review: “Great Demon Kings” — A Comet Circling Gas Giants

July 30, 2020
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John Giorno was in the vanguard of what later became the herd: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Warhol, Buddhism, Burroughs, enlightenment, spiritual quests to India, unfettered sex, wild poetry, new technology, experimental forms of expression, queer politics, pot, speed, LSD —  all the household bric-a-brac of the counterculture.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “Roseanne” — In Trumplandia, Women are the Losers

April 29, 2018
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For me, the experience of watching Roseanne is annoying and unpleasant.

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Coming Attractions: February 25 through March 13 — What Will Light Your Fire

February 25, 2018
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Fuse Coming Attractions—November 8–17: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

November 8, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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