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Book Review: Donald Antrim’s “The Emerald Light in the Air” — Unabashedly Gorgeous

September 2, 2014
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The Emerald Light in the Air is important reading for those interested in the state of the American short story, or of American fiction in general.

Book Review: The Leonard Bernstein Correspondence — A Tour of Twentieth Century Cultural History

October 31, 2013
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So is the book worth reading? Depends how interested you are in twentieth century cultural history, in music and creative genius, in marriage and sexuality.

Opera Review: BLO’s “The Barber of Seville” — An Exhilarating Triumph

October 16, 2018
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Every performance of opera should leave an audience so exhilarated.

Coming Attractions: September 25 Through October 8 — What Will Light Your Fire

September 25, 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.

Arts Commentary: WBUR’s Clogged “ARTery”

December 30, 2019
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Every organization in the Barr Foundation’s charmed circle — large arts groups and The ARTery — have a financial stake in reinforcing the belief that the Barr’s money is being put to supremely successful use.

Book Review: Towering Rage and Bottomless Mirth—Jonathan Franzen’s “Purity”

October 20, 2015
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My biggest gripe is with a central tenet of Jonathan Franzen’s fiction: communication between generations is impossible.

Author Interview: David Livingstone Smith on Dehumanization and “Making Monsters”

November 11, 2021
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“Making Monsters is a wake-up call. We need to seriously address the phenomenon of dehumanization if we are to have any hope of constraining it when things get really difficult.”

Visual Arts Preview: Nick Cave and William Kentridge at the ICA

February 7, 2014
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Both of these exhibitions challenge our very notions of time and identity and the social structures around us.

Coming Attractions: January 12 through 28 — What Will Light Your Fire

January 12, 2020
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

Poetry Review: Imagine — Yoko Ono Plants an “Acorn”

August 21, 2013
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Yoko Ono has always been the kind of artist more interested in getting into your head than convincing you to occupy hers.

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