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Harvard University Press

June 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: " Opera Rara, Alexandre Kantorow, Bianco e Falliero, Carry Me Home, Ermione, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Hahn: Poèmes & Valses, Harvard University Press, Herbert Blomstedt, Hyperion, Jason M. Rubin, John Higgs, Kendall Square, La donna del lago, Levon Helm, Mavis Staples, MIT Press, Ninja Thyberg, Not Thinking Like a Liberal, Pavel Kolesnikov, Pleasure, Raymond Geuss, Reynaldo Hahn, Robert Buderi, Rossini, Seagull Press, Tapiola Sinfonietta, William Blake vs. The World

Book Review: Through a Text, Too Darkly — The Life and Oration of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Overall, the ITRL is an improvement over earlier efforts, but it falls short of expectations, particularly when it comes to providing a way into the world of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola for those beginning the journey.

By: Maxwell Olin Massa Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Brian P. Copenhaver, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Harvard University Press, Maxwell Olin Massa, Michael J. B. Allen, Oration

Author Interview: David Livingstone Smith on Dehumanization and “Making Monsters”

Making Monsters “is a wake-up call. We need to seriously address the phenomenon of dehumanization if we are to have any hope of constraining it when things get really difficult.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview, Preview Tagged: David Livingstone Smith, dehumanization, Harvard University Press, Making Monsters, Nazism, Racism

May Short Fuses – Materia Critica

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

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: 2 Cents, Adam Nussbaum, Allen Michie, David Stewart, Douglas Olsen, Enfant Terrible, Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration, Gene Perla, Gene Perla 3 Trios, Harvard University Press, Mark Edmundson, Michael Ullman, Naga, New Deal For Artists, New World Records, Ojoyo Plays Safrojazz, PM Records, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Scott Wheeler, Song of Ourselves, Steve Provizer, Sunnyside, Walt Whitman, Wieland Schultz-Keil’

Book Review: “Burning the Books” — The Never-ending War on the Preservation of Knowledge

Burning the Books sometimes turns into  a disturbing chronicle of mankind’s elemental hostility to learning: barbarians often first targeted libraries and archives.

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Burning the Books, Harvard University Press, Richard Ovenden

Book Review: “Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin” — Naked City

Peter L’Official has written an important book that speaks with powerful relevance to the state of Black life in America today — and the demands of Black Lives Matter.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Harvard University Press, Mark Favermann, Peter L’Official, Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin

Book Review: “Accounting for Slavery” — Plantation Roots of Scientific Management

In this valuable study, Caitlin Rosenthal isolates an assortment of business practices and technologies that reflect the sophistication of New World plantation economies — dispelling myths of their romantic crudeness.

By: Jeremy Ray Jewell Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Accounting for Slavery, Caitlin Rosenthal, Harvard University Press, Slavery

Commentary/Interview: “Du Bois’s Telegram” — Restricting Literary Resistance

Is there a disconnect between artists and meaningful resistance movements?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Interview Tagged: criticism, Harvard University Press, Juliana Spahr, Literary Resistance, literature, politics, State Containment

Book Review: “After Ireland” — An Insightful Survey

The critic settles too comfortably too often on a familiar trope — Ireland’s sense of promise squelched.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: "After Ireland", Declan Kiberd, Harvard University Press, Irish Literature, Lucas Spiro

Book Review: Oscar Wilde Fights the Dying of the Light

Oscar Wilde’s life might have been tortured, but the writer never believed he had been disgraced, only rejected.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Harvard University Press, Nicholas Frankel, Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years, Tom Filbin

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