Matt Hanson
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Read MoreMichel Layaz’s narrator is juggling much more than nostalgia — his traumas are overwhelmingly odd and disturbing, almost to the point of absurdity.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Read MoreCountry music is as rich and complex as any other genre, but given the inevitable marketing tie-ins, it might be a good time to offer the names of artists and songs that either weren’t included or were briefly touched on at best.
Read MoreThe documentary sees The Family as really just a huge, secretive, and well-funded lobbying firm: separating church and state is for losers.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Read MoreColson Whitehead’s work is political in the sense that he has an incredibly keen eye for the insidious ways in which institutions and structures of power work.
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Literary Appreciation: The Late Harold Bloom — Pursuer of “Difficult Pleasures”
“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
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