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Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

January 24, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, film, and theater that’s coming up this week.

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Book Review: “The Amazing Bud Powell” — A Disappointing Study of a Jazz Legend

August 5, 2013
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Ramsey’s book on Bud Powell is both a provocative read and a disappointing one. Anyone thinking this will be an illuminating portrait of a jazz master is likely to suffer a serious case of buyer’s remorse.

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Short Fuse: Eternal Recurrence — Freud, Marx, Mao Zedong Thought

August 8, 2011
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What I do suspect though, and find evidence for in BLOODLUST is that Freud is immune to any final dispatch or disproof, and will likely, through one portal or another, go on reinserting himself into our culture.

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Poetry Commentary: Verse Into Verse — “Poetry” Awards Poetry a Prize

May 6, 2011
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In the future, when a literary historian looks at the long-forgotten Lilly Prize and wonders what did its selection panels get right, it will be recognized that it had been sensitive and intelligent enough to realize the beauty of David Ferry’s poetry, an oeuvre which is sure to grow in stature. By Daniel Bosch In…

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Book Review: More than Meets the Eye — “Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge”

December 1, 2015
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Readers interested in early modern science, Renaissance studies, or Galileo will undoubtedly savor this trailblazing work of history.

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Commentary/Interview: “The Jazz Bubble” — The Arts, Commodified

August 23, 2018
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In what ways are the arts themselves (and our understanding of them) being shaped to serve the ethos of corporate profit-making?

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Jazz Appreciation and Preview: James Carter — Life Begins at Fifty

March 13, 2019
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Whom can we thank at the Boston Symphony Orchestra for choosing James Carter to be the featured saxophone soloist in March 23’s concert at Symphony Hall?

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Favorite Music, Popular and Beyond, of 2018

December 27, 2018
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Our critics offer their musical highlights of 2018.

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Book Review: “We Were Eight Years in Power” — An Essential Book

November 11, 2017
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Nothing could be more necessary at this point in time than this book.

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Visual Arts Commentary: The Problematics of Multiculturalism at the MFA — On the Dallin Front

January 30, 2024
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Boston’s MFA owns the ethical and cultural dilemma regarding the location of Cyrus Dallin’s monumental statue “Appeal to the Great Spirit,” acquired as a gift in 1913.

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