Matt Hanson
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Michel Layaz’s narrator is juggling much more than nostalgia — his traumas are overwhelmingly odd and disturbing, almost to the point of absurdity.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
“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
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Country 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.

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