Matt Hanson

Coming Attractions: December 15 through 31 — What Will Light Your Fire

December 15, 2019
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

Book Review: “The Conservative Sensibility” — A Plea for a Return to Normalcy

December 10, 2019
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The very people that George Will is trying to appeal to are evidently quite happy to be drunk on the power that their brutishness has created.

Coming Attractions: December 1 through 15 — What Will Light Your Fire

December 1, 2019
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

Film Review: “The Irishman” — A Blood-Soaked Cautionary Tale

November 25, 2019
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For all its cinematic zest and superb acting, The Irishman offers a bleak demonstration of what happens when you sell your soul for too little.

Coming Attractions: November 17 through December 6 — What Will Light Your Fire

November 17, 2019
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

Coming Attractions: November 3 through 17 — What Will Light Your Fire

November 3, 2019
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

Book Review: “My Mother’s Tears” — Mystery Matriarch

November 1, 2019
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Michel Layaz’s narrator is juggling much more than nostalgia — his traumas are overwhelmingly odd and disturbing, almost to the point of absurdity.

Coming Attractions: October 20 through November 3 — What Will Light Your Fire

October 20, 2019
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

Literary Appreciation: The Late Harold Bloom — Pursuer of “Difficult Pleasures”

October 17, 2019
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“What is the function of literary criticism in a Disinformation Age? Read, reread, describe, evaluate, appreciate: that is the art of literary criticism for the present time.” — Harold Bloom

Coming Attractions: October 6 through 22 — What Will Light Your Fire

October 6, 2019
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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