1,920 stories by "Arts Fuse Editor"
Autobiography, personal essay, history, current affairs, or literary criticism, many are the guises under which travel writing has seduced readers of decidedly categorical bent.
"The Beginning-End of Yiddish," is poet/essayist Richard Fein's core subject: his love for a language largely eviscerated in his lifetime.
Postmodern jazz trio The Bad Plus plays some of the prettiest versions of Stravinsky ever performed.
No one would say that Terri Lyne Carrington's versions of Ellington's pieces are definitive, but they extend the legendary composer's legacy in a personal and significant way.
Peter Hook's memoir contains no earthshattering revelations, but it does offer a new way (or at least another way) of thinking about the four young men who made up Joy Division.
Heartbeat is an international non-profit organization that is aimed at uniting Israeli and Palestinian musicians, educators and students in order to transform conflict through the power of m…
Poems of concise and precise description and philosophy find their way among poems of memory and daily life, money, art, love, and the oddities in giving names. The J. Kates's technique is a…
The luminous physical beauty of the production staged by the American Repertory Theater, coupled with carefully crafted performances by its performers, makes this a Glass Menagerie to be che…
While The Vaccines Come of Age is a very good album, I can't listen to it without thinking that maybe the band grew up a little too fast.
Consider these few notes my handing The Porcupine of Mind off to you " you read it, you write about it, then we'll come back and talk.
Films such as Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters deny audiences the capacity to suspend disbelief. Instead, they use technology to make the impossible look real and the magical seem as this-wo…
Forget the Superbowl and screw Valentine's Day. There is too much great music happening in our corner of the country to waste time on such frivolous occasions. Will you need snow boots or su…
A strong month featuring performances from the celebrated Borromeo String Quartet, vocal group A Far Cry, and new music from Sound Icon.
Vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater's exuberance proved contagious in this performance featuring a remarkable group of jazz all-stars under the genial direction of bassist Christian McBride.
For Langston fails on its own terms, which is to produce a moving, insightful, and in some sense accurate interpretation of the poetry of Langston Hughes.
Notwithstanding all that David Shields writes about the books and authors he loves, both classic and contemporary, he announces that today he can't bear to write or read novels or even short…
American Horror Story: Asylum didn't skimp on the scary; there's enough disturbing images per episode to satisfy the most discriminating taste in horror.
George Harrar is not really a mystery or suspense writer, per se. His work is noir and tension-filled, but there is a philosophical and psychological sub-strata that's more reminiscent of Ka…
Literary history credits Rainer Maria Rilke with establishing European poetry's seminal concern with the duality between inner and outer worlds. Could it be that Comtesse Anna de Noailles wa…
Legendary music journalist Jules Siegel died of a heart attack on November 17, 2012 at the age of 77. There was no :New York Times" obituary, no mention in "Rolling Stone." But to me, he wa…
In an age where technology has made the improbable perfectly plausible, squeezed out spontaneity, and raised skepticism about the nature of reality, how can we still believe in miracles? Thi…
Artist Matthew Lewy's comprehensive, clever and surprisingly humorous take on an imaginary experimental settlement explores the ramifications of having human potential promptly assessed and …
In 1853, the Czech scholar Karol JaromÃr Erben published "A Bouquet of Folk Tales," which became a source-book for artists and composers, and "one of the three foundational texts of Czech…
David Ferry's voice is quiet but never shirks. It admits directly and indirectly that the world is a perplexing place.
"Ace of Spades" is pure fun to play, but I'm not sure smashing two games together qualifies as innovation.
