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Book Review: “The Sovereign” — Anarchy in Puerto Rico

Given the country’s current existential crisis, this genre-bending, ambitious-to-the-max debut novel about an uprising in Puerto Rico comes at the perfect time.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Andrew E. Colarusso. Dalkey Archive Press, fiction, Lucas Spiro, Puerto Rico, revolution, The Sovereign

Book Review: So You Say You Want a Revolution? “Democratic Enlightenment”

Jonathan I. Israel has written a monumental three-volume history of the Enlightenment, approximately 2500 pages long, not including three lengthy bibliographies. His erudition is fabulous; his range is dizzying.

By: George Scialabba Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: 1750-1790, and Human Rights, Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, George Scialabba, history, Jonathan I. Israel, revolution, The Enlightenment

Short Fuse: The Baader Meinhof Gang as Action Film

By Harvey Blume The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) Directed by Uli Edel At Kendall Square and Coolidge Corner Cinemas There are some things the German Red Army Faction — the RAF, or Baader Meinhof Gang — had in common with ultra-militant elements of the American New Left, as I knew and participated […]

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: American New Left, Baader Meinhof Gang, Film, militant, RAF, revolution, Short Fuse, The Baader Meinhof Complex, Uli Edel

Theater Review: Stuck on “The Coast of Utopia”

Not every critic is inspired by British playwright Tom Stoppard’s epic, Tony award-winning trilogy about the trials and tribulations of the 19th century Russian radical Alexander Herzen. Download the podcast By Bill Marx I had high expectations for Tom Stoppard’s labor of love, but walked away from his bloated homage to the great Russian journalist […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Podcast, Review, Theater Tagged: Alexander-Herzen, English, intelligencia, Podcast, revolution, Russia, Stoppard, The-Coast-of-Utopia

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