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AT DOC NYC: A Filmmaker’s Farewell to a Friend, Flophouse Vérité, and the Fight for “Female Viagra”

December 4, 2025
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A trio of good documentaries: Benita, Flophouse America, and The Pink Pill: Sex, Drugs and Who Has Control.

New York Theater Review: Storytime — “Venus” and “The Antipodes”

May 24, 2017
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Two plays from major American dramatists interrogate how we come up with the stories we tell about ourselves.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

August 10, 2023
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This week’s poem — Jennifer Jean’s “Wild Orca Family Chased Down by Jet-skiers Wanting Selfies”

Film Review: “Cloud” — Death by Capitalism

July 25, 2025
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s return to form might be explained by his looking backward: the director has chosen to grapple with the fact that many of the pessimistic prophecies of his earlier films have come true.

Book Review: “Interior” — The Thing-as-Himself

August 29, 2018
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Thomas Clerc’s novel reminds us of a stubborn truth: we are all narcissists that live to accumulate shit in rooms.

Visual Arts Review: Honoring Martin Puryear at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

November 10, 2025
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I found it remarkable to explore the exhibition, then experience a kind of filmic audience with the artist, then return, fired up and enlightened, to the beautiful installation.

Theater Review: “Berlin …” — Polymorphous Perversity

April 30, 2018
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The script is symptomatic of the Trump era: a passionate rejection of the “politically correct” pushes warriors for “freedom,” as well as voices of radicalism, into morally despicable positions.

Film Review: “Malcolm & Marie” — Who’s Afraid of Sam Levinson?

February 12, 2021
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This film offers a much more nuanced and self-reflective conversation about authorship, authenticity, creative inspiration, and the role of film criticism than any of its detractors are willing to admit.

Book Review: “Work Pray Code” — Managing and Deploying Spirituality in Silicon Valley

April 11, 2022
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A thorough sociologist, Carolyn Chen shows, step-by-step, how companies self-consciously appropriate religious language and rituals, creating a ‘theology’ in which work and purpose are perfectly aligned in the lives of their highest-value employees.

Coming Attractions: December 7 through 22 — What Will Light Your Fire

December 7, 2025
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