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Arts Fuse Podcast #14: Dialectics of Politicized Art, or the Intellectual History of White Men in Cars

The Arts Fuse welcomes a new character to its extended universe. Deanna Marie Costa, an editor and critic at the magazine.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, AOC, Art and Culture, Boston, criticism, green new deal, politics

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

Arts Fuse Podcast #10: The Audacity of Art

Fuse writers Lucas Spiro and Matt Hanson once again bang their heads against the walls of some of art’s big questions.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged: arts, Border, Culture, Josh Begley, politics, Wall, William Giraldi

Book Review: “No Is Not Enough” — Damned by Branding

Naomi Klein argues that the more anxious we are, the more vulnerable we are to politically opportunistic manipulation.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: branding, Donald Trump, Ed Meek, Haymarket Books, Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough, politics

Fuse Film Review: “Where to Invade Next” — Welcome Winds of Change

The lightheartedness of the writing and Moore’s unkempt look are jarring, but the film effectively delivers lessons about progressive policies.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: America, documentary, Michael-Moore, politics, Where to Invade Next

Book Review: Stanley Fish Invites Readers to “Think Again” — With Chutzpah

The New York Times columns selected for Think Again are engaging, provocative, maddening, humorous, and insightful.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, education, Law, New York Times column, politics, Princeton University Press, religion, Stanley Fish, Think Again

Fuse Theater Review: “Via Dolorosa” — An Innocent Abroad in Israel

Via Dolorosa would have been more effective if it had taken the form of a travel essay rather than a performance piece.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: David Bryan Jackson, David Hare, Israel, New Repertory Theatre, politics, Via Dolorosa

Book Review: Émile Zola’s “The Conquest of Plassans” — “Tartuffe” Gone Realpolitik

Entertaining yet incisive, The Conquest of Plassans remains a devastatingly acute reminder that religion and politics make surprisingly compatible bedfellows.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: 19th century French literature, Emile Zola, French literature, Oxford University Press, politics, religion, The Conquest of Plassans

Television Review: A Rousing Documentary on the Liberal Gusto of Ann Richards

This fine, partisan documentary resurrects Ann Richards, and it’s showing on HBO in a Lone Star election year. The Republicans better worry about Texans seeing it.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State, Ann Richards, documentary, HBO, politics

Movie Review: “The Ides of March” — Even with George Clooney, It’s Politics as Usual

“The Ides of March” tells the same old political story: we know how tedious the campaign season is, we know that deals are made behind doors and that all that really matter are the numbers.

By: Maraithe Thomas Filed Under: Film Tagged: George Clooney, politics, Ryan Gosling, The Ides of March

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