Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Literary critic Harold Bloom passed away at the age of 89 two days ago; here's an illuminating interview with Bloom from 2005.
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"I've been beaten. I know what that's like. They say, who has been a nail, can learn to be a hammer."
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:48PMTuesday, April 30, 2019
Is it all, from here on out, to be about Daenerys v. John Snow for the Iron Throne?
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:54PMTuesday, December 25, 2018
Shtisel 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 01:49PMTuesday, December 11, 2018
It'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 02:48PMTuesday, November 6, 2018
Now 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 02:04PMWednesday, August 22, 2018
I say we need this book now, but the truth is we needed it even more a while ago.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:18AMTuesday, June 12, 2018
Roseanne Barr recently apologized to billionaire Holocaust survivor George Soros for claiming he collaborated with the Nazis.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:24PMSunday, May 27, 2018
There's something Shakespearian about the grasp of Philip Roth's fiction.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:04PMThursday, August 10, 2017
I'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 11:48AMSunday, July 23, 2017
The 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 06:12PMSaturday, May 27, 2017
Why do critics like the New Yorker's Peter Schjeldahl rush to absolve G.W. Bush?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:05PMSunday, January 1, 2017
Some pithy quotes to keep in mind for the New Year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:12AMFriday, December 30, 2016
Some books published in 2016 I'm glad to have read.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:54AMMonday, October 24, 2016
Bad Moon Rising turns out to be justified by new findings, some of which will be surprising to all concerned.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:49AMWednesday, August 31, 2016
Joshua Rubenstein has penned a compact, chilling account of the demise of the Russian tyrant.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:55AMFriday, July 29, 2016
In this book, Peter D. Kramer counters what he sees as an ill-informed and dangerous backlash against antidepressant medications.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:43AMWednesday, July 20, 2016
For Cynthia Ozick, critics connect the dots; they inform us about what kind of culture we're living in.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:10AMSaturday, July 9, 2016
Of course, with the assistance of the massed megafauna (big beasts), and the yodeling of Tarzan, Jane is saved.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:02PMTuesday, June 14, 2016
Exit 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 11:56AMWednesday, March 30, 2016
Vaccination has, on the basis of all evidence, been thoroughly discredited as a cause of autism.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:15AMThursday, March 24, 2016
Peter-Adrian Cohen, playwright, critic, and late-life friend, died early in March, in Zurich, age seventy-six.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:34PMFriday, February 26, 2016
"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 09:50AMThursday, December 31, 2015
Some pithy quotes to keep in mind for the New Year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:34AMWednesday, December 23, 2015
I 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 11:45AMSaturday, December 12, 2015
Presented in no particular order, these ten books published over the last year got my not uniformly positive attention.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:55PMSunday, November 8, 2015
People 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 01:51PMSunday, October 11, 2015
Whatever 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 10:07AMTuesday, October 6, 2015
I wish I had more thumbs to turn down about Pawn Sacrifice.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:40PMWednesday, July 29, 2015
In this powerful novel, Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen shakes up stereotypical notions of the War in Vietnam.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:19PMFriday, July 24, 2015
"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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