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Five of my Free Throws are live at ArtsFuse artsfuse.org/289216/weekl... (and that’s Adalena Kavanagh’s photo of me)
Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse - The Arts Fuse
This week's poem: Jordan Davis's
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March 21, 2024 at 4:53 PM
pkeough1.bsky.social
Maybe my favorite film of the year.
#Flow #animation #filmreview #ArtsFuse
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Film Review: Go With the "Flow" - The Arts Fuse
This film puts "cat" back in catastrophe
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December 5, 2024 at 4:11 PM
pkeough1.bsky.social
In the minority with this one #Hamnet #ArtsFuse #Hamlet #ChloeZhao #Shakespeare #IThinkImTakingCrazyPills
Film Review: “Hamnet” — Not to Be artsfuse.org/320567/film-...
Film Review: "Hamnet" - Not to Be - The Arts Fuse
In Chloé Zhao’s "Hamnet," the Bard is a bore.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
improvz.bsky.social
One way to mark the birthday of#Coltrane-read what the #Artsfuse #jazz staff had to say about #alovesupreme

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Jazz Commentary: John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" Turns 60 - A Homage - The Arts Fuse
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the release of John Coltrane's magisterial album "A Love Supreme," which has meant so much to so many.
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September 23, 2026 at 1:50 PM
pkeough1.bsky.social
A great nearly forgotten documentarian celebrated at the #BostonBalticFilmFestival. In #doctalk in the #artsfuse.
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Doc Talk: The Boston Baltic Film Festival -- Studies in Brilliance - The Arts Fuse
A hero of his times: celebrating Latvian pioneering documentarian Juris Podnieks.
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February 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
pkeough1.bsky.social
A preview of #WQDOCS in #DocTalk in the #ArtsFuse.
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DocTalk: Wicked Queer Festival - Make Your Body Talk - The Arts Fuse
The word made flesh at WQ: Docs
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November 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
"Star 111 is a rich and strange novel of Germany’s change."

Lutz Seiler's Star 111, translated by @tesslewis.bsky.social, was insightfully reviewed by Tom Connolly at ArtsFuse.

If you have any interest in the Wenderoman, or just great literature, pick up Star 111.

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Book Review: Lutz Seiler's Vision of German Reunification, "Star 111" -- Dropping Stars Thick as Stones - The Arts Fuse
Lutz Seiler’s novel is part of the post-reunification literature landscape, in this case a brilliant exploration of the personal and political viewed through the consciousness of a pensively bedeviled...
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December 27, 2024 at 9:58 AM
pkeough1.bsky.social
A #review of #Magellan in the #ArtsFuse. #LavDiaz #FilmReviews
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Film Review: Lav Diaz’s "Magellan" - Conquest as Apocalypse - The Arts Fuse
"Magellan" circles the world and the world circles the drain.
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February 7, 2026 at 11:26 PM
pkeough1.bsky.social
A #review of #miroirsno3 by #christianpetzold in the #artsfuse. #coolidgecornertheatre.
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Film Review: Christian Petzold's "Miroirs No. 3” - Light as Air, Heavy with Secrets - The Arts Fuse
The narrative is filled with secrets and mysteries that tease and fade away — and the deepest mysteries lie within that basic social unit, the family.
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March 26, 2026 at 3:22 PM
terrihinte.bsky.social
Allen Michie reviews "The #Jazz Omnibus" for Boston's ArtsFuse. @jazzjournos.bsky.social
Book Review: "The Jazz Omnibus" -- The Ultimate Box Set of the Best Jazz Writing from the Last 25 Years - The Arts Fuse
Everyone who loves jazz, or makes a living somewhere in its world, owes a debt to many of the hard-working and under-paid writers of the Jazz Journalists Association (JJA).
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March 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
pkeough1.bsky.social
A review of #Highest2Lowest the new film from #SpikeLee. In the #ArtsFuse.
#DenzelWashington #AkiraKurosawa #HighandLow
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Film Review: "Highest 2 Lowest" is Somewhere In Between - The Arts Fuse
The times are out of joint for Spike Lee.
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August 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
pkeough1.bsky.social
A review of #LastWeekinEndTimesCinema by #ASHamrah in the #ArtsFuse. #filmcriticism artsfuse.org/322370/janua...
January Short Fuses — Materia Critica - The Arts Fuse
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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January 2, 2026 at 5:24 PM
pkeough1.bsky.social
I write about the #BostonFestivalofFilmsfromIran at the #MFABoston in the #ARTSFuse.
#Iraniancinema
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Film Reviews: The Boston Festival of Films from Iran -- Veiled Threats - The Arts Fuse
The power of cinema persists at the Boston Festival of Films from Iran.
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January 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
pkeough1.bsky.social
Fame and obscurity explored at the Wicked Queer Docs festival. In the Arts Fuse. #wickedqueerdocs #GeorgeMichael #JanisIan #JackieShane #doctalk #artsfuse #documentaries #filmreviews
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Doc Talk: Fame and Obscurity at "Wicked Queer Docs" - The Arts Fuse
Documentaries on George Michael, Janis Ian, and Jackie Shane look at musicians who grappled with the fear and consequences of expressing their true identities.
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November 14, 2024 at 3:09 PM
pageonem.bsky.social
SECRETS OF THE KILLING STATE (@nyupress.bsky.social) by @corinnabarrettlain.bsky.social was positively reviewed in @theartsfuse.bsky.social!

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🧵(11/18)

#artsfuse #bookreview #artsmag
Book Review: "Secrets of the Killing State" -- A Real Life Horror Story - The Arts Fuse
The author argues that “the only way to prevent the senseless acts of cruelty” that result from the “grinding gears” of the “machinery of death” is to “retire the machinery altogether."
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April 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
pkeough1.bsky.social
Some relatively upbeat #documentaries at the #WoodsHoleFilmFestival to dispel the gloom. #doctalk #artsfuse artsfuse.org/314357/doc-t...
Doc Talk: Flickers of Cautious Optimism at the Woods Hole Film Festival - The Arts Fuse
There's bad news and good news at the Woods Hole Film Festival.
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July 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
pkeough1.bsky.social
Best and not best in film this year at the #ArtsFuse.
#EndlessCookie #TrainDreams #EveryLIttleThing #2000MeterstoAndriivka #BestMovies2025
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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025 - The Arts Fuse
Our demanding critics choose the best films (along with some disappointments) of the year. And there is plenty of disagreement.
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December 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
pkeough1.bsky.social
Alook at the #documentaries at the #provincetowninternationalfilmfestival in #doctalk in the #artsfuse.
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Doc Talk: Fame and Obscurity at PIFF - The Arts Fuse
If the destiny of documentaries is to become celebrity profiles, it could do worse than those screening at this year’s PIFF.
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June 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
tomhull747.bsky.social
ArtsFuse has published my introduction and overview of the Mid-Year 2025 Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll, along with an essay about the poll by Jon Garelick. Complete results, including 113 ballots, are also available. My piece: artsfuse.org/313711/the-a...
The Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll -- Sharing What We Know at Mid-Year - The Arts Fuse
We are all part of a community with a deep commitment to this extraordinary but way-too-often unappreciated musical art, and the late critic Francis Davis believed we should work together and share wh...
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July 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
pkeough1.bsky.social
A review of #Blitz in the #ArtsFuse.
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Film Review: "Blitz" -- Children's Crusade - The Arts Fuse
In director Steve McQueen’s "Blitz", chaos can be a scary but exciting adventure, as tragedy and trauma mingle with the magic of a fairy tale.
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November 11, 2024 at 4:55 PM
chrismonsen.bsky.social
The results of the 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll were posted on ArtsFuse last night. The first edition since Davis died in April last year, now named in his honor. It's always been an honor to be asked to participate in the company of esteemed colleagues.

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The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues - The Arts Fuse
Onwards for an invaluable poll from a community of critics that gives us a map to an expansive world of jazz to explore -- with hints at terra incognita.
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January 13, 2026 at 5:19 PM
pkeough1.bsky.social
A review of #Materialists in the #ArtsFuse.
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Film Review: Dialectical "Materialists" - The Arts Fuse
Director Celine Song beats the romantic comedy to death.
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June 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
scottwstern.bsky.social
So thrilled with this wonderful review of THERE IS A DEEP BROODING IN ARKANSAS (@yalepress.bsky.social) in ArtsFuse, by the great Bill Littlefield (longtime NPR host)!

He calls the book an "extraordinary study" with an "ambitious and compelling narrative" :)
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Book Review: "There is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas" -- A Painful But Essential History Lesson - The Arts Fuse
The publication of "There is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas" is especially welcome and necessary at this time.
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January 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
callinamagician.bsky.social
For Artsfuse, I reviewed Charles Burnett's THE ANNIHILATION OF FISH, made in 1999 but receiving its first theatrical release in the U.S. this year: artsfuse.org/306898/film-... @kinolorber.com @milestonefilms.bsky.social
Film Review: Charles Burnett's "The Annihilation of Fish" -- An Odd Couple in Love - The Arts Fuse
Despite "The Annihilation of Fish"’s warmth and optimism, it’s a wonky film.
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March 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
pkeough1.bsky.social
A review of "Displaced," a Russian journalist's look at Ukrainian refugees, in the Arts Fuse. #Displaced #UkrainianWar #bookreview #ArtsFuse
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Book Review: A Good Russian - The Arts Fuse
"Displaced" views life during wartime as seen by both sides.
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September 8, 2024 at 3:21 PM