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Poetry Review: Rediscovering Aimé Césaire — The Politics and Poetics of Negritude.

January 8, 2015
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Valuable new translations of Aimé Césaire suggest that we have overemphasized the political dimension of his poetry and overlooked other, purely literary, qualities.

Theater Review: Bridge Repertory’s “Julius Caesar” — The Fast and Furious Version

May 21, 2015
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With Julius Caesar, Bridge Repertory shows that it can assemble a strong ensemble and put together a memorable sensory experience.

Film Commentary: You Know It When You See It — Desire and “Blue is the Warmest Color”

December 22, 2013
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Without its many steamy lesbian sex interludes tarting up what could otherwise be classified as a routine narrative, would “Blue is the Warmest Color” have garnered so many rave reviews and prizes?

Doc Talk: Making Reparations, Restoring a Reputation, Redrawing Identities

January 19, 2023
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Reviews of the cogent and well-crafted The Big Payback, the comprehensive if conventional Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space, and No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics, which expertly balances whimsy and gravity, though the version of the film shown by PBS has been heavily censored.

Coming Attractions: November 18 Through December 4 — What Will Light Your Fire

November 18, 2018
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

Book Review: Michel Houellebecq and the Wages of “Submission”

November 30, 2015
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If you’ve recently been mourning the end of the Novel of Ideas—take heart. And dig in, for Submission offers a smorgasbord.

Visual Arts Review: Beauford Delaney and Representation — “In the Medium of Life”

September 4, 2025
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This show demonstrates how Beauford Delaney absorbed lessons from modernism in order to create a unique abstract style that remained committed to representation. 

Book Review: “Do Not Sell at Any Price” — A Delightful Book on Those Who Collect Vintage 78 rpm Records

August 15, 2014
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I like to believe that I’m not loony, that, unlike certain 78 collectors profiled by Amanda Petrusich, I have a perspective on all this.

Sundance Film Festival 2023 Dispatch #1 — Girls Just Wanna

January 28, 2023
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The three films I selected to start my 2023 Sundance journey were very different from one another, but they shared one common theme: girlhood.

Book Review: “My Mother’s Tears” — Mystery Matriarch

November 1, 2019
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Michel Layaz’s narrator is juggling much more than nostalgia — his traumas are overwhelmingly odd and disturbing, almost to the point of absurdity.

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