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America

Concert Review/Interview: America at Lowell Memorial Auditorium

In Lowell, America played to a packed, enthusiastic, Centrum Silver-popping crowd who sang along with the band’s impressively deep roster of hits.

By: Jason M. Rubin Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music, Review, Rock, Uncategorized Tagged: America, Gerry Beckley, Horse With No Name, Jason Rubin

Book Review: Ohio Bound — “Far From Their Eyes”

This anthology, for all its occasional sadness, is optimistic about the future of immigration to America.

By: Marina Manoukian Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: America, Far From Their Eyes, immigration, Marina Manoukian, Ohio

Book Review: “America: The Farewell Tour” — Has Our Ship Already Sailed?

America: The Farewell Tour and American Pyschosis are well worth taking to heart — both to provide provocative perspective on what is happening and to spur us into action.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: America, American Psychosis, Chris Hedges, Ed Meek, The Farewell Tour

Fuse Film Review: “Where to Invade Next” — Welcome Winds of Change

The lightheartedness of the writing and Moore’s unkempt look are jarring, but the film effectively delivers lessons about progressive policies.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: America, documentary, Michael-Moore, politics, Where to Invade Next

Theater Review: “The Wakeville Stories” – Theater as Civic Ritual

Dramatist Laurence Carr has a gift for vivid characterization and for creating a concrete sense of time and place.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: America, Kristin Dwyer, Laurence Carr, Matty Mae Theater Project, Somerville Veterans Memorial Cemetery, The Wakeville Stories, Veterans, World War II

Book Review: “Shame” — Racism and the Sins of Paternalistic Liberalism

According to Shelby Steele, white liberals “dissociate” themselves from the past sins of white America by subscribing to the “poetic truth” that the United States is “characterologically evil.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: America, liberals, Racism, Shame, Shelby Steele, white liberalism

Fuse Book Review: “Wilde in America” — Not Wild Enough?

What Oscar Wilde was peddling in America was beauty. Art for art’s sake. Gorgeous flowers. Ravishing colors.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: America, celebrity, David M Friedman, Oscar Wilde, Wilde in America

Book Interview: S.T. Joshi on Ambrose Bierce — The Underappreciated Genius of Being Grim

Bierce proffers a satiric temperament gone wild and woolly, partly propelled by a revulsion at the criminal vulgarity of the Gilded Age. Given the current triumph of the 1%, his fury at power mad corporations is worth an admiring look.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Ambrose Bierce, America, civil-war, Devil's Dictionary, S.T. Joshi, satire, short stories, The LIbrary of America

Fuse Remembrance: Theodore Roszak (1933–2011)

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

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: America, America the Wise: the Longevity Revolution and the True Wealth of Nations, Baby Boomer, Old Age, Short Fuse, The Making of the Counter-culture, Thedore Roszak

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