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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse - The Arts Fuse

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Erica Abeel at the #NewYorkFilmFestival: Director Jim Jarmusch's "Father Mother Sister Brother" invites you into a space of present-ness where you need to slow down and reset your metabolism.

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The week’s poem: Jennifer K. Dick’s “4 Poems from "The Geometry of Descent," section “In Line”

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The week's poem: Jennifer K Dick's "4 Poems from "The Geometry of Descent," section “In Line”"

Film Review: "Tron: Ares" - It Might Have Been a Contender - The Arts Fuse

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@mikemarano.bsky.social writes that #TronAres hurries from one spectacular concept and one spectacular set piece to another. But it doesn’t take the time to let any of those remarkable things sink in.

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Tron: Ares hurries from one spectacular concept and one spectacular set piece to another. But it doesn't take the time to let any of those remarkable things sink in.

Poetry Review: Shangyang Fang’s "Study of Sorrow: Translations" - The Arts Fuse

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Laura Sheahen on "Study of Sorrow: Translations" from (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social). We owe Shangyang Fang a debt for bringing the delicacy, obliqueness, and sheer tremulous beauty of these Chinese poems to English-speaking readers.

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We owe Shangyang Fang a debt for bringing the delicacy, obliqueness, and sheer tremulous beauty of these Chinese poems to English-speaking readers.

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Rob Duguay talks to The Cult's guitarist Billy Duffy about the band's “Paradise Now” tour, where early Death Cult tracks are being performed along with the group's most recent material.

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The Arts Fuse newsletter is out and about. My editorial asks "Is Massachusetts doing anything to protect independent voices in an increasingly hostile landscape for writers and readers?" Any surprise that the state is spinning its wheels?

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Trevor Fairbrother reviews "Queer Enlightenments: A Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers, and Homemakers" This lively foray into popular history exemplifies the move to attract younger audiences with open and freewheeling interests in gender and sexual nonconformity.

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Book Review: "Fifty Poems" - An Offering on the Altar of Rainer Maria Rilke - The Arts Fuse

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If, as a commemorative volume, "Fifty Poems" invites readers to sample the German poet #rainermariarilke more extensively, either in the original or in the range of translations currently available, it will have accomplished a valuable task. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

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If, as a commemorative volume, "Fifty Poems" introduces readers to sample the German poet more extensively, either in the original or in the range of translations currently available, it will have acc...

October Short Fuses — Materia Critica - The Arts Fuse

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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews. Short reviews for October include short bursts from Ralph Locke, Steven Erickson, Peter Walsh, Allen Michie, and me.

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

Theater Review: “Sardines” - A One-Man Journey Through Death, Memory, and Grace - The Arts Fuse

The Arts Fuse @theartsfuse.bsky.social · 4d

In his one-person show "Sardines" at The Huntington Theatre, writes Bob Israel, Chris Grace invites us to think about mortality with him, to learn something from his stories, and to share a few heartwarming laughs along the way.
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Chris Grace invites us to think about mortality with him, to learn something from his stories, and to share a few heartwarming laughs along the way.

Book Reviews: Four Books on the Climate Crisis - Is it Really the End of the World? - The Arts Fuse

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Ed Meek on Wim Carton and #andreasmalm's "The Long Heat" @versobooks.bsky.social and other books on the Climate Crisis: How bad is the future going to be? Depends on who you read.

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How bad is the future going to be? Depends on who you read.

Book Review: India through a Daughter’s Eyes: The Turbulent Journey of “Mother Mary Comes to Me” - The Arts Fuse

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Helen Epstein on #ArundhatiRoy's memoir "Mother Mary Sings to Me": This account of a formidable mother and equally formidable daughter is an absorbing read that packed the memoir form to the gills and demanded my attention. @scribnerbooks.bsky.social

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This account of a formidable mother and equally formidable daughter is an absorbing read that packed the memoir form to the gills and demanded my attention.

The Arts Fuse @theartsfuse.bsky.social · 5d

At a time when the world’s aflame, writes Paul Robicheau #davidbyrne's show at the Boch Center Wang Theater ignited creative camaraderie and delivered a dazzling experience that lingers in mind and spirit.

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Film Review: Dispatch From the New York Festival - "After the Hunt" - The Arts Fuse

The Arts Fuse @theartsfuse.bsky.social · 7d

Erica Abeel is suspicious of the murky political messaging in #LucaGuadagnino's "After the Hunt": the film churns up issues that feel several years behind the curve (hello 2007 and #HarveyWeinstein).

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"After the Hunt" churns up issues that feel several years behind the curve (hello 2007 and Harvey Weinstein).

Film Festival Reviews: New York Film Festival's 2025 “Revivals” - The Arts Fuse

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#thenewyorkfilmfestival's “Revivals” series showcases new restorations, writes @callinamagician.bsky.social, so the expectation is that these movies, including art films from around the world, will become more widely available. He reviews four of this year's entries.

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Because NYFF's “Revivals” supplement showcases new restorations, the expectation is that these movies, including art films from around the world, should become more widely available down the road.

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Cyrisse Jaffee on two new non-fiction books -- "Fight for the Right to Read" and "The Ultimate Book of the Human Body" -- that offer important information for young readers. @crestonbooks.bsky.social

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Tim Jackson on @bowedtie.bsky.social's #TheSmashingMachine: This is far from a conventional sports drama: it is a study of a man’s struggle to find a sense of personal worth and relevance.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse - The Arts Fuse

The Arts Fuse @theartsfuse.bsky.social · 8d

The Arts Fuse poem of the week: Jim Dunn's "The Ballad of Bailability"

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This week's poem: Jim Dunn's "The Ballad of Bailability"

Concert Review: Junction Trio Journeys Through the Demanding Sonic Terrain of John Zorn - The Arts Fuse

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Kai Maristed on Laura Vazquez's #theendlessweek (@dorothyproject.bsky.social): the novel is a brave, uneven, at times brilliant swathe of prose. Experimental? For certain. Perhaps the only way to write an Internet novel is by looking from the inside out.

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The Arts Fuse @theartsfuse.bsky.social · 9d

John Tamilio on #junctiontrio performing the music of #johnzorn at the #IsabellaStewartGardnerMuseum: this was the coolest show in town — an afternoon of experimental music that highlighted their virtuosity as individual players and as a unit.

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The Junction Trio offered the coolest show in town — an afternoon of experimental music that highlighted their virtuosity as individual players and as a unit.

The Arts Fuse @theartsfuse.bsky.social · 9d

The newsletter is out and about. My editorial points out that America’s arts and culture establishment has decided to bow to Trump.
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The Arts Fuse @theartsfuse.bsky.social · 10d

Biographer Jennifer Ann Redmond’s sympathetic approach to Diana Barrymore’s disastrous life is valuable, writes Tom Connolly, because it rejects the poor-little-rich-girl tropes. She was more than a debauched debutante or fallen starlet.

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Jonathan Bonfiglio on "Paradise/Mash-Up: Andrae Green" at the Boston Center for the Arts. For Jamaican-born visual artist @andraegreen.bsky.social, where land and sea meet is not a line, but an immersion.

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