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Film Review: “Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey” — A Harlequin Feminist Manifesto

February 17, 2020
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The apocalyptic mayhem is glorious and certainly cathartic. Still, I have to ask: is this how women will rise up and take what’s ours? With violence?

Book Review: Getting Down and Dirty in the Dollhouse: Ibsen and the Kardashians

January 4, 2012
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An underground academic critic explores the fascinating intersections between the Kardashian sisters’ novel “Dollhouse” and Ibsen’s play “A Doll House.” The more things change …

Book Review: “Love in the New Millennium” — Inscrutable Passion

November 25, 2018
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This is a bewildering, frustrating, deeply weird novel, densely written and remarkably free of signposts.

Visual Arts/Book Review: “Drawing in Silver and Gold” — the Miracle of Metalpoint

September 26, 2015
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What seems to be a constant is a feeling that it is miraculous that these works have come into being, and that they are unlike any other kind of drawing.

Coming Attractions: February 10 through 26 — What Will Light Your Fire

February 10, 2019
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

Visual Arts Feature: Leonard Cohen — Peering Behind the Public Persona

December 15, 2022
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Despite Leonard Cohen’s outward humility, he was, in fact, an artist who very much cultivated acclaim, and wanted that attention to endure.

Jazz Commentary: Chet Baker — The Climax of Cool

September 29, 2018
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For most of its history, jazz has been a macho culture. Sexual ambiguity or gay-ness were subjects of derision.

Fuse Remembrance: Peter-Adrian Cohen — 11/16/1939 – 3/7/2016

March 24, 2016
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Peter-Adrian Cohen, playwright, critic, and late-life friend, died early in March, in Zurich, age seventy-six.

Book Review: “The Communicating Vessels” — Incommunicado

September 10, 2021
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The late Friederike Mayröcker’s über-recognizable style has become a brand, logoed by certain objects: violets, lilacs, birds

Fuse Commentary: The Value of Browsing and Discovering That the “Shit Must Stop”

April 24, 2015
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Sometime you go in search of one thing, and you stumble upon something else. And maybe that newly discovered thing is something wonderful.

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