This album lacks the desperation, the immediacy, the sheer power that made Sleater-Kinney essential in its original decade. The post Rock CD Review: Sleater-Kinney’s “The Center Won’t …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:03AMThis fine novel is portrait of Baltimore as a city at war with itself. The post Book Review: “Lady in the Lake” — The Complex Tapestry of Urban Decay appeared first on The Arts Fuse.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48AMHelen Gillet's music welcomes loops of all sorts and plays with the happy accidents that create new melodies and rhythms that reach beyond borders. The post Music Preview: Cellist Helen Gill…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:24PMAs readers know, a thread of melancholy runs through Tolkien’s masterwork, deepening and informing his achievement. It should, by rights, have its place in any depiction of his life. The p…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:03PMThis is the most extensive public display of original J.R.R. Tolkien material for several generations. The post Visual Arts Review: “Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth” — Treasures of an I…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:05PMIn every meaningful way, The The’s return to the States, the band's first tour in 16 years, was generous.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:24PMI think of Bill when I hear from struggling young writers, desperate to get it "right" – and to be accepted and published and make a living in a ridiculously difficult field.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:36PMThis is a winning book, conveying a strangely believable fantasy about three strong young women in a world not that far removed from our own.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:48PM“They travel the world and have for years,” says Ellen Seeling, “sending the message that there are no women good enough to be in this organization.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:42AMBy taking the stage with 15 musicians, none of whom is female, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra presents the music as segregated and outdated.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:06AMWhile The Bone Clocks is compulsively readable, there are too many parts of this book that can only be called lazy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:18PMWe all have ghosts, the author seems to say. And in a larger sense, Sarah Waters’s ghosts are those of country and culture, her books a catalogue of the social changes shaking England from…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:50AMSometimes using the Twitter handle #itsokKimNovak, at other times just linking to Laura Lipmann’s Facebook page, women – primarily writers and our friends – have started posting our ow…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:19PMVIDA, an association of women in the literary arts, has released its fifth annual tally of the number of women critics in major literary publications as well as the number of works by women …
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