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Book Feature: Worthwhile Reads in 2016

December 30, 2016
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Some books published in 2016 I’m glad to have read.

Fuse Theater Review: “The Real Thing” — A Play That Resonates with Reality

November 15, 2014
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The Real Thing’s discussion of linguistic precision may be telling now in ways that dramatist Tom Stoppard may not have anticipated.

Theater Commentary/Review: On American Stages — No Politics, Please

March 14, 2015
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In 1939, Clifford Odets wrote that ‘we are living at a time when new art works should shoot bullets.” Fat chance of any shots coming from our voluntarily disarmed theaters.

Book Review: “Sargent and Paris” — Sargent and Amnesia

April 29, 2025
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I wish this catalogue spelled out John Singer Sargent’s professional stance as a “juste milieu” painter more methodically. That term refers to those eager to be associated with new stylistic tendencies yet careful not to transgress the establishment’s norms.

Coming Attractions: December 26 Through January 10 — What Will Light Your Fire

December 26, 2021
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Compiled by Bill Marx As the age of Covid-19 wanes (or waxes?), Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music. Please check with venues about whether the event is available by streaming or is in person. More offerings will be added as they come in. Film The Arts Fuse…

Book Review: Appreciating the Life of George Orwell — A Giant of the 20th Century

February 26, 2014
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George Orwell strikes me as a man who was easy to love because he had a tenderness in him that runs like a stream throughout these letters and makes you feel, as you read, how much you would have liked to know him.

Book Review: How Science Fared in the Enlightenment — At the Halle Orphanage

July 25, 2015
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Kelly Joan Whitmer does two things very well: she tells a vibrant tale of intellectual reform and shines a light on less prominent historical actors in the history of science.

August Short Fuses – Materia Critica

August 10, 2021
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

Book Review: “Was It Yesterday?: Nostalgia in Contemporary Film and Television” — Looking at the Past, Fearlessly

August 31, 2021
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The essays in this excellent volume consistently show that nostalgia is about something, and it matters.

Film Review: “Late Night with the Devil” — Retro Occult Wizardry

March 22, 2024
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The Cairnes brothers explore how the analog media trickery of a bygone era may illuminate our current obsession with what is real.

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