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Poetry Review: Bill Knott’s American Surrealism – A Magic Carpet Ride

Perhaps what makes bill Knott’s poetry so addictive is his uncanny ability to turn language inside out.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: American, Bill Knott, I Am Flying Into Myself, Matt Hanson, Poetry

Film Review: “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead”—The Rise and Fall of the National Lampoon

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is mostly a straight-ahead telling of the vivid life of the National Lampoon.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: American, documentary, Douglas Tirola, Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, humor, National Lampoon, The Story of the National Lampoon

Commentary/CD Reviews: Recent Symphonic Recordings From Boston Orchestras

A series of new and recent recordings by Boston orchestras demonstrate that, in the right hands, symphonic music since 1945 remains alive and well, still powerful, fresh, and vibrant.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: American, Andrew Norman, BMOP, BMOP/sound, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Symphony Orchestra, contemporary, Gil-Rose, Irving-Fine, James Levine, John Harbison, Play, Symphonies, Symphony, Try

Fuse Theater Review: “Mothers & Sons” — Surveying, With Understanding, the Battles Ahead

Mothers & Sons raises important questions about struggle, acceptance, and love, dramatizing battles that are still being waged.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: AIDS, American, gay, homosexuality, Mothers & Sons, Paul Daigneault, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Terrence McNally

Fuse Theater Commentary/Review: On American Stages — No Politics, Please

In 1939, Clifford Odets wrote that ‘we are living at a time when new art works should shoot bullets.” Fat chance of any shots coming from our voluntarily disarmed theaters.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: American, American Playwriting and the Anti-political Prejudice, Nelson Pressley, political-theater, Richard Nelson, That Hopey Changey Thing, The Apple Family Plays

Book Review: Merritt Tierce’s Smart and Ruthless “Love Me Back” — The Way We Live Now

So much of what this novel has to say feels bracing and necessary. This is where a good part of America lives—dangling over a chasm.

By: Ted Kehoe Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: American, contemporary fiction, Love Me Back, Merritt Tierce, novel, Ted Kehoe

Visual Arts Review: “Quilts and Color” — Far From Folk and Perhaps Beyond Art

Far from being the cool, detached, and cerebral creations of the color field artists, these quilts, imagined in their intended context, are deeply personal, sensuous, and alive.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: American, folk art, museum-of-fine-arts-boston, quilts, Quilts and Color: The Pilgrim/Roy Collection

Book Review: “The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.” — Brooklyn Fiction That is a Breed Apart

The moral urgency and the humane distribution of Adelle Waldman’s authorial sympathy are evident everywhere in “The Love Affair of Nathaniel P.”

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Adelle Waldman, American, fiction, Short Fuse, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

Book Review: “The Woman Who Lost Her Soul” — A Lengthy Tale of Innocence Betrayed

Despite his weakness for overwriting, Bob Shacochis has a good and sad story to tell, and he gets through it with a degree of mastery.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: American, Bob Shacochis, contemporary, fiction, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

Book Review: Denise Levertov — More Than a Famous Antiwar Poet

This meticulous biography of Anglo-American poet Denise Levertov is the labor of many years and of deep reflection and care.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: A Poet's Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov, American, Denise Levertov, Donna Krolik Hollenberg, Poetry

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