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University of Chicago Press

January Short Fuses — Materia Critica

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

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Short Fuses Tagged: Assembly Row, Cambodia, Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation, Drifting, ECM, Elieen Myles, Erato, Grove-Press, insanity, John Nelsons, Mark Favermann, Mette Henriette, Michael Spyres, Nick Seaver, Open-Letter, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Pathetic Literature, Roosters Crow Dogs Cry, The Conversation, University of Chicago Press, Wojciech Tochman

Visual Arts Review: “Seeing Silicon Valley” — Our Future Dystopia?

This is an important book, a powerful account of the decline of California as America’s paradise.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Fred Turner, Mary Beth Meehan, Seeing Silicon Valley:, University of Chicago Press

Poetry Review: Gail Mazur’s “Land’s End” — Poems of Questions and Declarations

It’s hard to imagine many of Gail Mazur’s poems emerging from anywhere else than from inside Route 128.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Gail Mazur, Land's End, University of Chicago Press

Poetry Review: “Little Kisses” — Poetic Affection

Reading Little Kisses is reassuring — and that is a valuable attribute given the times we are living in.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Little Kisses, Lloyd Schwartz, Poetry, University of Chicago Press

Fuse Book Review: A Peek Inside the Palace of a Veteran French Wordsmith

Roger Grenier wears his considerable learning lightly. His writing is a graceful dance of the intellect.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Alice Kaplan, french, Michael Connor, Palace of Books, Roger Grenier, translation, University of Chicago Press

Book Review: “The Democratic Surround” — Exploring the Makings of Mass Experience

Fred Turner’s counterintuitive and subtle argument in The Democratic Surround draws a direct line between the design of museum exhibitions and the Be-Ins of the Summer of Love.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: American Liberalism, Fred Turner, Multimedia, Psychedelic Sixties, The Democratic Surround, University of Chicago Press, World War II

Book Review: Females on the Frontier of Medicine — Healers in Early Modern Germany

In her groundbreaking study, Tufts University professor Alisha Rankin essentially revises the history of medicine by showing that women, presumed to be marginal in the development early modern medicine, were actually major players.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Alisha Rankin, history of science, Panaceia’s Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany, University of Chicago Press

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