• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • About
  • Donate

The Arts Fuse

Boston's Online Arts Magazine: Dance, Film, Literature, Music, Theater, and more

  • Podcasts
  • Coming Attractions
  • Reviews
  • Short Fuses
  • Interviews
  • Commentary
  • The Arts
    • Performing Arts
      • Dance
      • Music
      • Theater
    • Other
      • Books
      • Film
      • Food
      • Television
      • Visual Arts

Columbia University Press

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

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.

By: Bill Littlefield Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: American Prisons, Bill Keller, Bill Littlefield, Columbia University Press, Prison reform, What’s Prison For?

September Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: (Irresistible/Revolutionary), Al Foster, Bill-Marx, Candid Records, Coleman Hawkins, Columbia University Press, Craig Davis, Darren Byler, Dodo Marmarosa, Ex Tenebris Lux, Faya Dayi, Jazz Reunion, Jessica Beshir, Mark Favermann, Norah Jones, Ondine, Pee Wee Russell, Peter Keough, Regina Spektor, Roger Lewis, Smoke Sessions Records, Steve Provizer, The Backstreets, Tone Paintings: The Music of Dodo Marmarosa, Žibuoklė Martinaitytė

Book Review: “Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik” — The Evolution of a Radical Thinker

A powerfully relevant study about an iconoclastic Black thinker and poet who was dedicated to economic reform as well as the eradication of racism.

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Claude McKay, Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik, Columbia University Press, Winston James

Book Review: “Second Time Around: From Art House to DVD”

The book’s conceit is that D.A. Miller watches films he’s seen earlier in life with enhanced perception because of the possibilities offered him through the DVD lens.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Columbia University Press, D.A. Miller, Second Time Around-From Arthouse to DVD

Book Review: “Woe from Wit” — A Great Russian Drama, Newly Translated

One of the masterpieces of Russian drama is done justice in a English version that successfully captures much of the wit and fluency of the original.

By: Laurence Senelick Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Alexander Griboedov, Betsy Hulick, Columbia University Press, Russian drama, Woe From Wit, Woe From Wit: A Verse Comedy in Four Acts

Book Review: “Klotsvog” — Confusion Reigns Supreme

Klotsvog ends up being a fascinating literary failure. Good for academics, but bad for readers.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Columbia University Press, Klotsvog, Lisa Hayden, Lucas Spiro, Margarita Khemlin

Book Review: “Necropolis” — A Book of the Russian Literary Dead

This memoir offers an invaluable, broad look at intellectual Russia before and after the revolutions of 1917.

By: J. Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Columbia University Press, J Kates, Necropolis, Russian, translation, Vladislav Khodasevich

Poetry Review: The Golden Age of Russian Poetry — Revisited

Here, then, are two books that provide a fine literary introduction to one of the richest flowerings of poetry in European culture.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: A Science Not For the Earth: Selected Poems & Letters, Columbia University Press, Konstantin Batyushkov, Peter France, Ugly Duckling Presse, Writings From the Golden Age of Russian Poetry, Yevgeny Baratynsky

Book Review: Punk Rock and Poetry — The Record Corrected

There was an entire “New York School” that the punks were inspired by and a part of, whether they always wanted to be or not.

By: Adam Ellsworth Filed Under: Books, Featured, Music, Rock Tagged: Columbia University Press, Daniel Kane, Do You Have a Band? Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City, Patti Smith, Poetry, Punk Rock, Richard Hell

Book Review: “Rapture” — Modernism, Daredevil Style

Rapture is a worthwhile curio that grapples, entertainingly, with Modernism’s artistic, structural, and revolutionary quandaries.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Columbia University Press, Futurism, Iliazd, Lucas Spiro, Rapture, Russian literature, Thomas J. Kitson, translation

  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Search

Popular Posts

  • Rock Concert Review: Bruce Springsteen at TD Garden — Largely Choreographed and Celebratory So yeah, mortality was a heavy theme in Bruce Springste... posted on March 22, 2023
  • Concert Review: Goose Earns Its Indie-Groove Wings Goose has seen its stock in the jam-band world soar at... posted on March 26, 2023
  • Book Review: “Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time’s Journey Through Rock & Roll History” Even more impressive than the sheer amount of raw knowl... posted on March 14, 2023
  • Classical Concert Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra Plays Wolfe and Górecki Brimming with edge-of-seat intensity and fist-waving th... posted on March 17, 2023
  • Rock Concert Review: Elvis Costello — Proudly Flaunting his Dependability and Unpredictability Elvis Costello loves to visit various regions of the pa... posted on March 10, 2023

Social

Follow us:

Footer

  • About Us
  • Advertising/Underwriting
  • Syndication
  • Media Resources
  • Editors and Contributors

We Are

Boston’s online arts magazine since 2007. Powered by 70+ experts and writers.

Follow Us

Monthly Archives

Categories

"Use the point of your pen, not the feather." -- Jonathan Swift

Copyright © 2023 · The Arts Fuse - All Rights Reserved · Website by Stephanie Franz