Song of Ourselves

May Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

Kai January 22, 2022 at 8:21 pm on Poetry Review: Writer Alain Mabanckou — Taking Life Both to Heart and in StrideHi Athar and sincere thanks for your comment. Looks like there are at least two of us with similar reactions....
Chris Clark January 22, 2022 at 3:26 pm on Book Review: “Robert E. Lee and Me” — An Incomplete ReckoningThe book rings hollow. This man is an emeritus professor of history and it only took him 59 years to...
Mary Ella Feinleib January 22, 2022 at 12:23 am on Television Review: “Reframed: Marilyn Monroe” — A Feminist Tribute or a Reframe-up Job?A very good analysis. Trying to turn a woman from the past into a symbol of feminism is a n...
Thomas Garvey January 20, 2022 at 3:13 pm on Film Review: “Don’t Look Up” — A Pitch-Dark Satire that Dares to be Impudently PessimisticWell, that's classic Gerald Peary right there.
Athar January 18, 2022 at 3:56 pm on Poetry Review: Writer Alain Mabanckou — Taking Life Both to Heart and in StrideThank you for your incisive comments on BEST AMERICAN POETRY OF 2021 which I have been plowing through and finding...