Wednesday, April 7, 2021
This is a great work, more linear than Tom Stoppard's earlier dramas, yet filled with such intelligence and compassion that it will be read and seen for years and years and, perhaps, over ti…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:48PMFriday, November 22, 2019
This is a brilliant book that comes at a propitious time in our country’s history.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:33AMWednesday, September 25, 2019
In this seemingly modest, but beautifully constructed and deeply moving play, Donald Margulies has tackled some of the thorniest questions of our time.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:24PMThursday, August 29, 2019
To have such a remarkably courageous voice as Lucette Lagnado's silenced forever at such a young age is, simply, not fair.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:42PMFriday, July 5, 2019
In Extremis is required reading not only for anyone interested in war, but for anyone interested in how an unusual woman makes her way in the world.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:18PMWednesday, June 5, 2019
A splendid production of an impressive early effort from the talented writer Kenneth Lonergan.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48AMTuesday, April 2, 2019
This consistently interesting novel adds an unforgettable dimension to an historical event about which we thought we knew all there was to know.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:02AMFriday, February 8, 2019
Although Anthony Powell’s stock has gone down since he died in 2000, I hope that this new biography will spark interest in A Dance to the Music of Time.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:54PMWednesday, January 2, 2019
What impressed me most about these two different women is they were both products of an America which values determination and wit and intelligence, as well as opportunity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AMThursday, November 8, 2018
In Washington Black novelist Esi Edugyan has defied the cliché of the escaped slave discovering freedom.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:48AMTuesday, September 25, 2018
Deborah Eisenberg's stories pull you in and imitate life in an uncanny way.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:24PMMonday, June 25, 2018
It is heart-warming that, in these “worst of times," playwrights like Carey Crim are working quietly to give us a look at new beginnings with humor and tenderness and hope.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12AMWednesday, June 13, 2018
In the end, Philip Roth produced the greatest body of work in the 20th century since William Faulkner and Saul Bellow and I.B. Singer.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:06PMWednesday, May 9, 2018
Schutt's is an example of the kind of fiction that is being taken seriously in too many quarters in this new century, but that is not nearly good enough.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12AMTuesday, April 17, 2018
The Lyric Stage production of Anna Christie does right by Eugene O'Neill's brilliance.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:06PMTuesday, March 13, 2018
There is much to love in this Lyric Stage Company production and I recommend it highly.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:09AMWednesday, March 7, 2018
For the hundredth birthday of Charlotte Salomon, who is emerging as one of the 20th century’s great artists, two fabulous volumes dedicated to her work.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:44AMMonday, January 22, 2018
This superb volume is much more than a group of essays; it is a tale with a trajectory fashioned by a writer who is determined to be achingly honest.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:48AMFriday, November 3, 2017
Spiro Veloudos and his talented cast has given us an evening in the theater when all that makes us human comes to the fore.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:24PMThursday, October 12, 2017
The biography offers a fascinating look at Frances Coke Villiers’s unique tale of rebellion, examining the plight of one memorable woman during a tumultuous time.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:06PMTuesday, September 12, 2017
Helen Dunmore's astounding final novel is a fascinating take on a family of radicals living in Bristol, England during the French Revolution.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:24PMThursday, August 3, 2017
This book captures — beautifully — poet John Ashbery’s youth and dreams and struggles.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AMTuesday, July 25, 2017
It is my sad duty to report that an evening which looked so promising was hardly a worthy homage to an important musical figure of the 20th century.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:06AMSunday, June 25, 2017
Focusing on these indomitable and sometimes troubling women, Fought has written an engaging book that is compelling, sometimes even fierce.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48AMTuesday, May 2, 2017
George Prochnik's biography of Gershom Scholem is flawed, but well worth reading, especially for those struggling with their Jewish and Israeli identities.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:06PMSaturday, April 15, 2017
These well-crafted stories are not for the faint-hearted.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:54AMMonday, March 20, 2017
May this superb biography, The Invention of Angela Carter, spark more interest in this amazing writer, especially in the United States.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:36AMWednesday, February 22, 2017
This is the work of an extremely talented writer whose prose is spare and exact and has an authenticity that marks him as the real thing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48AMWednesday, January 25, 2017
Reading William Trevor will enrich you in ways you cannot imagine.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMThursday, December 22, 2016
Two books -- one nonfiction, the other fiction -- that deal with Jewish history.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:18PMThursday, December 1, 2016
A splendid, absorbing read in which you feel as if you’ve been dropped onto the set of a Mozart opera.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:36AM 
