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Book Review: “Plato at the Googleplex” — A Passionate and Thoughtful Look at Philosophy Today

June 3, 2014
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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s erudition, coupled to her literary skill, makes Plato at the Googleplex inviting and readable without sacrificing complexity.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

November 15, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in dance and music that’s coming up this week.

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Theater Review: A Second Look at the “Confederacy”

November 26, 2015
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The humor of Toole’s novel, its enjoyment of puncturing surfaces and pretensions, has been reduced to punch-line humor and one-liners.

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Author Interview: Jennifer Haigh on Writing About Abortion — With Roe v. Wade Likely to be Overturned

May 3, 2022
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“As a writer, I was drawn to a subject I can’t make sense of any other way. So the questions swirling around abortion are so close to my heart I just had to write about it.”

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December Short Fuses — Materia Critica

December 1, 2024
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Film Review: “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” — Chekhov’s Flamethrower

August 5, 2019
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Quentin Tarantino delights in exhausting his audiences as much as he does in entertaining them.

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Coming Attractions: June 3 through 19 — What Will Light Your Fire

June 3, 2018
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Book Commentary: “Fahrenheit 451” and Cultural Betrayal

June 14, 2018
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It never occurs to him that, by championing just the great works of Western Civilization and consigning pop culture (notably science-fiction) to the flames, he’s exercising his own pernicious brand of censorship.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: May 22 through 31 — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

May 22, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Arts Reconsideration: “Pinocchio” at 80

July 12, 2020
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Now that the real live boy is an old man, how’s he holding up in 2020?

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