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Culture Vulture: Tracking the Transcendentalists

May 25, 2010
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There are dozens of excellent books about the Alcotts, Emersons, Thoreau, and Hawthorne but reading them can’t beat actually walking through the places where the people actually lived. By Helen Epstein “We are all going to be made perfect,” wrote ten-year-old Louisa May Alcott in June of 1843, “This day we left Concord in the…

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

November 16, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, visual arts, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

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Book Review: The Dazzling Dissent of Cynthia Ozick

September 24, 2004
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  By Tess Lewis This masterful new novel sees heresy and idealism as the warp and woof of history. Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick. (Houghton Mifflin) Little in Cynthia Ozick’s books is predictable or simple. Her sinuous essays are, as she says, “thing[s] of the imagination,” “the movement of a free mind…

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World Books Review: “The Twin” — Isolation Made Compelling

April 26, 2009
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A brilliant Dutch novel that explores the connections to the disconnected. The Twin By Gerbrand Bakker Translated from the Dutch by David Colmer. Archipelago Books, 343 pages. Reviewed by Tommy Wallach It isn’t easy to write a compelling novel about loneliness, for the simple reason that loneliness is boring. It makes for something of a…

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — May 6

May 6, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

November 23, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, and author readings for the coming  week.

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Book Review: The Remarkable Life of Storm Jameson — Attention Tenderly Paid

January 2, 2015
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After reading this scholarly and accessible biography, I am convinced that Storm Jameson’s life is a must for anyone fascinated by the history of women writers in the 20th century.

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Concert Review: The Kraftwerk Machine — Still Running Smoothly

March 14, 2025
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Anybody at Tuesday’s show who thought the members of Kraftwerk were just punching buttons at their static posts while audiovisuals surged automatically would be mistaken.

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Remembrance: Aharon Appelfeld — A Displaced Writer of Displaced Fiction

January 6, 2018
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“Everything about the Holocaust already seems so thoroughly unreal, as if it no longer belongs to the experience of our generation, but to mythology…”

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Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

March 7, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film and theater that’s coming up this week.

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