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Short Fuse Visual Arts News: What is Good Art? Me and Barry McGee

May 7, 2013
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I don’t understand why the ICA has made the mistake of allotting a one man show to Barry McGee.

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Movie Review: “Elysium” Lost?

August 14, 2013
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My point is that whatever distinguished District 9 and made it so special is entirely absent from director Neill Blomkamp’s blockbuster, Elysium.

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Theater Review: Jane Austen Tweets In Chester, MA

July 11, 2011
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The Chester Theatre Company’s production, directed by Ron Bashford, runs over two hours with nary a dull moment and the actors seem to be having as wonderful a time as the audience.

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Book Review: “Shout It Out Loud” — KISS and Sell

December 22, 2015
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Shout It Out Loud begins as a forensic examination of KISS’s Destroyer album, but it ends up as much more.

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Television Review: “Reframed: Marilyn Monroe” — A Feminist Tribute or a Reframe-up Job?

January 21, 2022
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The primary interest of Reframed isn’t film history; it is revisionist social statement, and a new twist on the celebrity documentary: star bio-cum-feminist essay.

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Book Review: “A Brief Stop on the Road From Auschwitz” — Destined to Become a Classic

February 23, 2015
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Göran Rosenberg has written a calm yet passionate account of events after Auschwitz, a memoir marked by great intelligence and equally great emotional intensity.

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Book Review: “Run Towards the Danger” — Grappling With Memories of Trauma

January 18, 2023
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Sarah Polley’s essay on sexual assault by itself is worth the price of the book, essential reading for anyone interested in the physical and psychological after-effects of violence against women.

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Book Review: “Melting Point” — Promises, Promises

June 1, 2025
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After discarding a conventional draft — lots of explanatory narration from the author as a book’s omniscient narrator — Rachel Cockerell decided instead to create the book entirely as a collage of fragments from the historical record.

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Book Review: “Refugee: A Memoir” — A Powerful Story of the Plight of Millions

June 11, 2021
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Refugee: A Memoir was not written to entertain but to outrage and activate.

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Book Review: “Coders” — Brave New World, Coded

April 15, 2019
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Coders had nothing in their intellectual toolbox that would help them understand people.

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