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Book Review: “In Extremis” — A Flawed Heroine

In Extremis is required reading not only for anyone interested in war, but for anyone interested in how an unusual woman makes her way in the world.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: biography, In Extremis, knopf, Lindsey Hilsum, Marie Colvin

Book Review: “The Songs We Know Best” — The Youth of Poet John Ashbery

This book captures — beautifully — poet John Ashbery’s youth and dreams and struggles.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: American poetry, biography, Farrar, John Ashbery, John Ashbery’s Early Life, Karin Roffman, Straus and Giroux, The Songs We Know Best

Book Review: The “Inexhaustibility” of Angela Carter

May this superb biography, The Invention of Angela Carter, spark more interest in this amazing writer, especially in the United States.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Angela Carter, biography, Edmund Gordon, Oxford University Press, The Invention of Angela Carter

Book Review: A Biography of T.S. Eliot — Before, During, and After “The Waste Land”

In this excellent biography, Robert Crawford succeeds admirably in detailing T.S. Eliot’s early intellectual development.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: biography, Jennifer Formichelli, Poetry, Robert Crawford, T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, Young Eliot

Book Review: A Well-Rounded Look at Napoleon the Man and the Myth

Andrew Roberts has succeeded in a single volume in reconciling the two faces of this historical colossus.

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Andrew Roberts, biography, European history, history, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon: A Life, non-fiction, Thomas Filbin, War

Fuse CD Review: Jay-Z’s “Magna Carta Holy Grail” — More Miss Than Hit

Those cynical about the album’s extravagant promotional campaign will be glad to hear that Jay-Z’s latest studio effort is very hit-or-miss.

By: Austin W. Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music Tagged: biography, Hip Hop, Jay-Z, Magna Carta Holy Grail

Book Review: A Compelling Look at the Life of Poet John Keats

There is a steadiness about Nicholas Roe’s writing that is deceptive; the life in the Life does not jump off the page, but it accumulates during the reading so that something of what it felt like to be around John Keats remains, as things do when truly experienced.

By: Marcia Karp Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: biography, John Keats, Nicholas Roe, Yale-University-Press

Arts Commentary: Not Just Shakespeare — “Anonymous” Wrongs Ben Jonson As Well

The awkward logic of “Anonymous” turns the initially stalwart Ben Jonson into a ludicrous double-dealer, who advances his supreme tribute (‘Soul of the age!’) to a man he knows to have been a fraud and imposter.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film Tagged: Anonymous, Ben Jonson, biography, Elizabeth l, Ian Donaldson, William-Shakespeare

Fuse Book Review: A Puzzling Look at the West, Islam, and The Convert

If you are going to write about this very charged subject, the West and Islam, why would you choose as a representative of that great and ancient culture a woman who is stunted emotionally, clearly unreliable, and probably mentally unstable?

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books Tagged: biography, Deborah Baker, Islam, The Convert

Fuse Interview: Helen Epstein Interviews Herself — Joe Papp Biography Goes Electronic

Author and Arts Fuse Contributor Helen Epstein explains why she decided to take her 1994 biography Joe Papp: An American Life and convert it into an eBook—given what may be the precarious future for the traditional book, she “wanted to save it for posterity.” By Helen Epstein. AF: Joe Papp died in 1991. Why publish […]

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: biography, Culture Vulture, EBook, Jewish, Joe Papp, Theater

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