Literary critic Harold Bloom passed away at the age of 89 two days ago; here's an illuminating interview with Bloom from 2005. The post Book Interview: The Late Harold Bloom Talks Religion a…
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:54PMShtisel offers a humane glimpse into the lives of people who would normally be shrouded from me by all sorts of religious and political barriers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:49PMIt's as if critics of silent films were barred from discussing talkies, or devotees of black and white were banned from discussing color.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:48PMNow George Soros is mostly known as favored target of the right, more onerous to it, it seems, than even — Lock Her Up! — Hillary Clinton.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:04PMI say we need this book now, but the truth is we needed it even more a while ago.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:18AMRoseanne Barr recently apologized to billionaire Holocaust survivor George Soros for claiming he collaborated with the Nazis.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:24PMThere's something Shakespearian about the grasp of Philip Roth's fiction.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:04PMI'm not going to see Detroit and that's because I'm sure it will have the virtues of Kathryn Bigelow's other films and the corresponding flaws.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:48AMThe Wermacht cut its swathe through France at a rate that amazed Winston Churchill in no small part because it was on speed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:12PMWhy do critics like the New Yorker's Peter Schjeldahl rush to absolve G.W. Bush?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:05PMSome pithy quotes to keep in mind for the New Year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:12AMSome books published in 2016 I'm glad to have read.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:54AMBad Moon Rising turns out to be justified by new findings, some of which will be surprising to all concerned.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:49AMJoshua Rubenstein has penned a compact, chilling account of the demise of the Russian tyrant.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:55AMIn this book, Peter D. Kramer counters what he sees as an ill-informed and dangerous backlash against antidepressant medications.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:43AMFor Cynthia Ozick, critics connect the dots; they inform us about what kind of culture we're living in.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:10AMOf course, with the assistance of the massed megafauna (big beasts), and the yodeling of Tarzan, Jane is saved.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:02PMExit Right is about how six men entered into politics on the left side of the spectrum and wound up immured in varying extremes of conservatism.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:56AMVaccination has, on the basis of all evidence, been thoroughly discredited as a cause of autism.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:15AMPeter-Adrian Cohen, playwright, critic, and late-life friend, died early in March, in Zurich, age seventy-six.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:34PM"All my effort is to transform machines into narrative, to show how much narrative power they have inside them, how they can tell stories."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:50AMSome pithy quotes to keep in mind for the New Year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:34AMI liked the movie. How not? I'm of the generation that saw the originals, back when the Force was younger.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:45AMPresented in no particular order, these ten books published over the last year got my not uniformly positive attention.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:55PMPeople like [Yigal Amir] emerge in many social movements, people who regard protest within the bounds of democratic process as insufficient.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:51PMWhatever its flaws, Sicario goes a long way to informing us of what's happening just south of the border — not driven by illegal immigration, but by American drug lust.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:07AMI wish I had more thumbs to turn down about Pawn Sacrifice.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:40PMIn this powerful novel, Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen shakes up stereotypical notions of the War in Vietnam.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:19PM"When people ask how I became interested in history, I answer it was through an interest in popular culture and disreputable genres."
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