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Opera Album Review: Richard Flury, A Swiss Composer You Should Know About

August 17, 2022
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A world-premiere recording of Richard Flury’s fascinating 1935 opera about love, deceit, and the possibility of forgiveness.

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Theater Feature: Best Stage Productions of 2014

December 22, 2014
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Fuse theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions of the year.

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Book Review: “What’s Prison For?” — A Case for Building Trust and Mutual Respect

February 25, 2023
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In this valuable and necessary book Bill Keller argues that American prisons need to accept that men and women don’t stop being human beings because they’re in the custody of the state.

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Book Review: “The Elixir of Immortality” — A Fabulous Ride Through European History

February 1, 2014
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Love stories, treachery, brilliant plans, history itself gone awry – it’s all here in inspiring abundance in this fabulous novel, where the Spinozas make their way through hundreds of years of European history.

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Fuse Remembrance: Theodore Roszak (1933–2011)

July 22, 2011
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“The main idea I’ve been working with is what I call the longevity revolution.” — Theodore Roszak

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Jazz Album Reviews: Dave Brubeck x 2

December 31, 2020
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Two from Dave Brubeck: Time Outtakes, the alternate tracks for the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s classic 1959 album Time Out is very good to have; Lullabies is filled with the intimate sound of the pianist’s old age, tender affection, and distilled musical wisdom.

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Movie Review: The Ten Best Films of 2013 — Our Lists

December 28, 2013
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The most unfairly maligned film of the year: Ridley Scott’s “The Counselor.” The most overrated movie of the year, which gave me a mammoth headache: “American Hustle.”

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Book Review: “Better Living Through Criticism” — Critical Self-Help

June 16, 2016
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A.O. Scott’s hurrah for criticism should be savored by anyone interested in how we articulate the value of the arts.

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Book Review: Janet Malcolm’s “Still Pictures” — An Anti-Confessional

February 27, 2023
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Janet Malcolm never brings up the possibility that her powers of memory have dramatically diminished in old age. If that were the case, such an admission would’ve strengthened the book, giving it context. It would have humanized it, too.

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Visual Arts: Conservation Conundrums

April 26, 2012
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Art conservation is a very pragmatic field, full of compromises.

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