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Book Review: “The Fires of Lust” — Copulation in the Middle Ages

September 13, 2022
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Historian Katherine Harvey’s well-researched and lively book shows that in the Middle Ages lust had its way. Big time.

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Film Review: “Promising Young Woman” — Surprisingly Restrained

December 29, 2020
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In its efforts to subvert well-known tropes, and reclaim the subgenre’s feminist cultural potency, Promising Young Woman undercuts its own transgressive potential by doing away with what makes rape-revenge films compelling.

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May Short Fuses — Materia Critica

May 1, 2023
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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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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

August 30, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Shelter in Place Attractions: April 4 through 20 — What Will Light Your Home Fires

April 4, 2021
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In the age of COVID-19, Arts Fuse critics have come up with a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music — mostly available by streaming — for the coming weeks. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Book Feature: Poet Liao Yiwu — Memories of the Tiananmen Square “Massacre”

May 29, 2009
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June 3 marks the 20th anniversary of the brutal suppression of the Tiananmen student movement. To mark the occasion, here is the story behind Massacre, an epic poem about the violence that landed its author in jail.

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Book Review: “The Barefoot Woman” — A Survivor’s Eulogy

December 19, 2018
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The Barefoot Woman is lyrical but also informative and ethnographic, as much a memoir of a mother as it is of her way of life.

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Book Review: “My Brooklyn Writer Friend” — Flashes in the Gloom

January 20, 2016
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Thanks in large part to brevity alone, the way these stories work is closer to poetry than to fiction.

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Poetry Review: Rediscovering Aimé Césaire — The Politics and Poetics of Negritude.

January 8, 2015
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Valuable new translations of Aimé Césaire suggest that we have overemphasized the political dimension of his poetry and overlooked other, purely literary, qualities.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: July 31 through August 16 — What Will Light Your Fire

July 31, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.

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