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Book Review: “Shylock Is My Name” — And the Problem Remains

April 1, 2016
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Despite this, he is vexed by how the play draws out the anti-Semitism of English audiences

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Album Review: Juan Cirerol’s “Punk Feeling” — Mexicali’s Poet of Poverty Returns

July 5, 2021
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Jaun Cirerol has been accused of idealizing desperation. He disagrees. “I am well-anchored,” he responds.

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Book Interview: The Late Harold Bloom Talks Religion

October 16, 2019
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Literary critic Harold Bloom passed away at the age of 89 two days ago; here’s an illuminating interview with Bloom from 2005.

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Music Interview: Jesse Colin Young and His Boston Roots

May 17, 2018
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Jesse Colin Young’s best material is worthy of favorable comparisons to Tom Rush, Gordon Lightfoot, and the unrelated Neil Young.

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The Arts on Stamps of the World — August 3

August 3, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Jazz Appreciation: Moppa Elliott Does It All for You

March 25, 2024
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Moppa Elliott is an important jazz composer and a dynamic leader. When he brings a group to our area (which happens only rarely), do not miss the gig. When he issues a new recording, pay attention.

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Book Review: “Peggy Guggenheim, The Shock of the Modern” — The Woman Behind a Remarkable Legacy

October 1, 2015
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Although there is a strangely dour tinge to this biography of Peggy Guggenheim, Francine Prose is ultimately fair.

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Film Review: “Soundtrack to a Coup d’État” — The Freedom of Jazz, Manipulated in the Cold War

January 11, 2025
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This is a chilling tale of the (last) Cold War, and footage of Teslas and iPhones serves as a potent reminder that the struggle for global natural resources, in the Third World and beyond, continues.

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Film Review: “Don’t Look Up” — A Pitch-Dark Satire that Dares to be Impudently Pessimistic

January 4, 2022
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The knee-jerk, hateful reviews of Don’t Look Up possess comments so outsized, and so beside the point, that they bear a resemblance to the oblivious thinking of the movie’s anti-science ostriches.

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Film Review: American Iconoclast — Harmony Korine and “Spring Breakers”

March 24, 2013
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This new commercially distributed movie gives writer/director Harmony Korine an opportunity to create a vision of decadence that wallows with cartoon glee in a libidinous pop culture wonderland.

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