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Theater Review: A Timely ‘Timon of Athens’

May 28, 2010
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This Shakespearean drama is savage and sour, its astringent vision of anger as the sole motive for living anticipating the death’s head satire of Swift, Céline, Thomas Bernhard, and Samuel Beckett. Timon of Athens, by William Shakespeare. Directed by Bill Barclay. Presented by Actors’ Shakespeare Project at the Midway Studio, Boston, MA, through June 13,…

Book Review: “Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life” — Intimations of a Seminal Thinker’s Aura

August 20, 2014
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The authors have used their research well. Beyond applying an abundance of detail to trace his intellectual growth as well as the trajectory of his emotions, Eiland and Jennings have managed to intimate—though perhaps not to capture—something more elusive: a sense of Benjamin’s aura.

Visual Arts Review: Artist Paul Klee — Philosophical Thinker?

November 10, 2012
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The enduring aspect of Paul Klee’s art is its playfulness, which bubbles up even out of this viscous curatorial treatment.

Coming Attractions: December 30 Through January 14 — What Will Light Your Fire

December 30, 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.

Theater Review: “Pipeline” — A Didactic Excursion

March 11, 2020
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Dominique Morisseau’s earnest Pipeline is a “message” play, American style.

Theater Review: “Out of Sterno” — Absurd to the Point of Distraction

July 4, 2015
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Out of Sterno punches the same punchline far too often.

Poetry Review: Portrait of a Predicament

August 26, 2011
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I wouldn’t be writing this review or asking you to read this book if I didn’t believe that McLane were up to something far more radical and also far more difficult to reckon with—something I am not even sure I can account for. The most significant quality of the poetry in “World Enough” is a profound and unapologetic ambiguity.

Visual Arts Review: “Raven’s Many Gifts” at PEM — When Cultures Collide

May 29, 2014
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How much can a “native” artist adopt from Western modernism before his arts loses its tribal identity and, along with it, its appeal to an outside market?

Poetry Review: “It’s Like That If You’re Alive” — The Poetry of Tone Škrjanec

March 6, 2015
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Looking deeply into things and, by no means least of all, into other human beings implies meditating on brevity, on ephemerality—and this is what Tone Škrjanec does in this book.

Visual Arts Review: Flowers as the Work Table for the Imagination

November 5, 2011
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Inescapably erotic, flowers are all about desire. What are they but a glorious exhibition and frame of their own genitals?

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