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Book Review: “Hollywood’s Imperial Wars” — Darkness Visible

April 16, 2024
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“Hollywood’s Imperial Wars” is at its best as a bold and informative survey of the movies that the studios felt it was “credibly possible” for them to make after Vietnam.

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International Event Preview: “Where Do You Live?” — Her Story Is Looks at Iraq Today

February 27, 2023
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By focusing on dialogue and artistic collaboration, Her Story Is explores what life is like for Iraqis now, especially the country’s women.

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Visual Arts Review: Heigh-Ho — Walt Disney’s “Snow White” at the Rockwell Museum

August 18, 2013
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In four jam-packed rooms, in paper, acetate, and select video sequences, Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of a Classic deconstructs the film’s artistic and technical achievement.

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Book Review: “Five Cities” — Urban Meditations on Turkish History and Culture

June 27, 2019
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Five Cities is a species of psychogeography, a deep map, that weighs the effects of topography, urban environments, and monuments of the past on mood and perspective.

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Book Review: “The Unknown Kerouac” — Unnecessary?

November 22, 2016
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The Unknown Kerouac is good for the advancement of Kerouac scholarship, but the book hardly justifies, for the average reader, its price and size.

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Book Review: “Living On Paper” — Letters From Iris Murdoch

March 5, 2016
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Iris Murdoch proves a wonderful companion: funny, honest, insightful, and courageous.

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April Short Fuses — Materia Critica

April 2, 2023
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Jazz Album Review: “The Best of Bird” — The Sheer Genius of Charlie Parker

September 29, 2024
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“Ornithology: The Best of Bird” might better be described as the best of Bird on Savoy.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — January 23

January 23, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Book Review: “Movie Freak” — A Critic Who Doesn’t Hold Back

April 13, 2016
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If Owen Gleiberman has any complaint against today’s world of criticism it’s that everyone seems to be speaking in one voice.

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