Unlike the rock star supporters of Pussy Riot, Garry Kasparov lives in Moscow, which means, given how the Putin regime has dealt with critics, he has a lot more to fear than, say, Madonna, w…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:56PMDissident artist Ai Weiwei speaks for an alternate China, another possibility for it. In a sense, he is the anti-Mao. Alison Klayman's "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry” is an essential introduction…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06AMArt and science rebuffed each other in this show. Visitors are unlikely to leave with either a greater understanding of cosmology or of Josiah McElheny's art.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:39AMAs monster fiction, "Vlad" has hints, now and then, of what "Talulla Rising" doesn't aspire to. In the former, Carlos Fuentes peels back the familiar to provide glimpses of the genuinely hor…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:19AMHere you have it: Werewolves are horny, vamps merely thirsty. This, to be sure, is material to work with, as novelist Glen Duncan does. But I can't help thinking about great nineteenth-centu…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:25AMThere have been over twenty movie adaptations of H. P. Lovecraft stories, all nearly forgotten. And yet Lovecraft's sensibility serves as a guide to much of today's cinema.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:52AMThe stories of Israeli writer Etgar Keret are diverse, one-of-a-kind safety nets, spun out of humor, tenderness and wild imaginings.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:30AMWhat struck me about "Hunger Games" is that the rules change in Katniss Everdeen's battle to survive against others like her, including others she likes, might even love.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:01AMIn his exploration of history, Jack Beatty suggests that World War I, as we know it, was an improbable event.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:05AMeremy lin & i played a few games. let me say, so far as xiangqi went, he wasn’t an all star. then again, neither was i.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:37PMNo doubt too much can be made out of Steve Jobs's tripped-out youth, but also, too little. Jobs himself said: "Definitely, taking LSD is one of the most important things in my life." He neve…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:10PMI had written director Martin Scorcese off, and never expected he had a "Hugo" in him. That he did is the among the touching things in this film.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:54PM"The Submission" has been compared to Richard Price's richly evocative novels of New York life. It's an apt comparison, though Amy Waldman brings a new cast of characters to bear, members of…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:37AMThe Swedes, to be sure, came for first-hand footage about the Black Power movement. How they managed to forget about that footage for decades is a story only they can tell. But you feel, in …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:56PMJoshua Rubenstein's succinct account of Leon Trotsky's life rescues the Russian radical from a remoteness, positioning him at a useful distance for contemporary readers
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:11PMAuthor Deborah Lipstadt's decision to confront a Holocaust denier in court prepared her, as little else might have, to appreciate and convey the vastly greater complexity and historical impo…
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