Do we feel the environment breakdown in our gut? Will people looking back see art that conveyed the existential threat of the emergency?
politics
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.
Commentary/Interview: “Du Bois’s Telegram” — Restricting Literary Resistance
Is there a disconnect between artists and meaningful resistance movements?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.