• 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

Literary criticism

Short Fuse Podcast #43: What is Poetry For?

Host Elizabeth Howard talks with poet and performer Kyle Ducayan, executive director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, about the purpose of poetry.

By: Elizabeth Howard Filed Under: Books, Featured, Podcast Tagged: amanda gorman, arts, bowery pots, brooklyn rail, danspace, Donald Hall, Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Howard, Kyle Ducayan, Literary criticism, on being, pen america, Performance Art, Poems, Poetry, poetry foundation of america, poetry in motion, poetry performance, poetry podcast, poetry project, Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, poetry reading, poetry unbound, poetry underground, poets, poets on instagram, poets' house, Sewanee, slam poetry, st.Mark's, T.S. Eliot, The New Yorker, the paris review, Turtle Point Press, ugly duckling press

Book Review: Literary Critic James Wood and the Art of ‘Deep Noticing’

We will always need critics to show us how literature works by revering it rather than interrogating it as if it had committed a crime.

By: Matt Hanson Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: James Wood, Literary criticism, Matt Hanson, The Nearest Thing to Life

Book Review/Commentary: Why Lionel Trilling — and Serious Criticism — Matters

The essential task of the critic is not to like or dislike the arts or to push bromides, such as to celebrate the “power of reading.” Despite some troublesome modifications, Lionel Trilling carries on the mission of E.A. Poe and Henry James: he articulates the value of the serious act of judgment in a culture hostile to it.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Adam Kirsch, American criticism, arts-criticism, criticism, Lionel Trilling, Literary criticism, Why Trilling Matters

Book Review: Matinee Modernism — Celebrity and Academia Converge and It Isn’t Pretty

What could have been a readable, informative, pleasurable book that would, much like Woody Allen’s recent film MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, enhance our experience of some of the modernist figures we adore wallows too often in brain-dead literary theory.

By: Christopher M. Ohge Filed Under: Books Tagged: Charlie Chaplin, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Jean Rhys, John Dos Passos, Jonathan Goldman, Literary criticism, Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity, Oscar Wilde

Arts Commentary: With Friends Like These — The New York Times Explains Why Criticism Matters

The important question the NYTBR Editors fail to ask is whether the traditional definition and values of literary criticism will survive in an age of ebooks and iPads. Is there a primal appetite for criticism? (Edith Wharton says there is, and I believe her.) How will the Internet shape our innate desire to compare, judge, […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Adam Kirsch, book-reviews, criticism, Elif Batuman, Katie Roiphe, Literary criticism, New York Times Book Review, Sam Anderson, Stephen Burn

Primary Sidebar

Search

Popular Posts

  • Rock Album Review: The Tedeschi Trucks Band’s “I Am The Moon” — Nothing If Not Ambitious Crescent gives us the first five songs of the I Am The... posted on May 30, 2022
  • Album Review: The Tedeschi Trucks Band’s “I Am the Moon” — Part Two, “Ascension” The high quality of the material presented thus far jus... posted on June 27, 2022
  • Theater Review: “1776” — Still an Egg in the Theatrical Incubator This revival of 1776 tries to strike a culture wars bal... posted on June 5, 2022
  • Television Review: “Shoresy” — A Spin-off That Falls Short The Canadian sports comedy Shoresy works as its own ser... posted on June 7, 2022
  • Album Review: Drummer Bill Bruford’s “Making a Song and Dance” — Adventures Galore Legendary percussionist Bill Bruford’s recorded output... posted on May 31, 2022

Social

Follow us:

Follow the Conversation

  • SteveMackett June 28, 2022 at 3:16 pm on Album Review: Drummer Bill Bruford’s “Making a Song and Dance” — Adventures GaloreNo doubt Tony Banks!
  • Susan Vertullo June 28, 2022 at 10:29 am on Film Review: The Devil and “Elvis”Well-written, thoughtful review! Now I wanna see the movie. Tim Jackson gets bonus points for making me look up "hagiographic."...
  • Kris June 28, 2022 at 5:57 am on Album Review: The Tedeschi Trucks Band’s “I Am the Moon” — Part Two, “Ascension”Nice job Scott, looking fwd to hearing the new album! And guess who lives in Gilford and will see the...
  • Megha Bharadwaj June 28, 2022 at 3:27 am on Author Interview: The “Friday Night Lights of Hockey” — Jay Atkinson’s “Ice Time” Turns TwentyGreat interview with a great guy! I took Jay's class recently and he taught the tenets of great storytelling. I'll...
  • Mark Favermann June 27, 2022 at 2:45 pm on Visual Arts Commentary: Two Books and a Play — Creating Architectural LiteracyAccording to The NY Times, Straight Line Crazy, the play by David Hare about the contentious urban planner Robert Moses,...

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 © 2022 · The Arts Fuse - All Rights Reserved · Website by Stephanie Franz