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As the year nears its end, time is running out to write at length about some of the new books that gave me pleasure. Thus this quick list of favorites. As usual, my taste runs to prose that’s off-the-beaten-path.
Read MoreYasmina Reza’s dollhouse of a novel is a miniaturist’s miracle.
Read MoreThis astutely curated exhibit explores the presence of architecture in contemporary sculpture.
Read MoreMiranda July’s originality of vision rests on an acute (and astute) awareness of the cosmic and the quotidian.
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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Grids come into these woven pieces with a strange humility, disarming us with repurposed materials and precious handiwork, domestic scenes and visionary tales.
Read MoreLiterary history credits Rainer Maria Rilke with establishing European poetry’s seminal concern with the duality between inner and outer worlds. Could it be that Comtesse Anna de Noailles was his precursor in this regard? Translator Norman Shapiro and Black Widow Press should be thanked for bringing her back into the discussion.
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Preoccupied with the little melodramas of their lives and their careers in the arts, the characters in”Afire” put off acknowledging the gathering disaster that might end up at their doorstep.
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We built this form of democracy and now we must stand up to what it’s become and say “I don’t consent to this.”
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Holiday Commentary: Making Room for the Stranger