Politics
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T. R. Reid
August 1, 2026In this great country, for all its goodness, and for all the excellence of the medical...
Movies
Movie Review: The Informant!
August 1, 2026Perhaps the most ingenious part of Whitacre’s affect (and the film) is his stream-of-consciousness inner monologue....
History
Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
July 31, 2026Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American. Karl Marx contributed almost...
Fiction Reviews
The Twelve by William Gladstone
July 31, 2026This novel follows the exploits of intellectual and spiritual wunderkind Max Doff who, even as an...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks by Ethan Gilsdorf
July 31, 2026The Otherkin Resource Center (ORC) exists for people who don’t believe they are human. Elves, vampires,...
Fiction Reviews
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
July 31, 2026But, as we see in the terrifying drawings of his radiologist father giving him neck adjustments—“kkrraackk,”...
Movies
Movie Review: 9
July 30, 2026The film is truly gorgeous to behold. Starz Animation has officially given Pixar a run for...
Movies
Movie Review: The September Issue
July 30, 2026From pink to black and from Paris to Bryant Park, this flashy documentary by R.J. Cutler...
Fiction Reviews
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
July 30, 2026She sees faces in the flaking walls of the kitchen, fears for the soul of a...
Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Big Machine by Victor LaValle
July 30, 2026The Big Machine is what urban fantasy looks like when it’s grown up and the writer...
Fiction Reviews
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
July 29, 2026Krista and Aaron eventually do meet, in a shocking incident that leaves little space for spoken...
Fiction Reviews
Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
July 29, 2026Sing in me, Muse quotes Homer (the original one). "Jacqueline, my muse, I speak to you...
Non-Fiction Reviews
From Galileo to Gell-Mann: The Wonder That Inspired The Greatest Scientists of All Time in Their Own Words
July 29, 2026Duccio Machetto opines in the book’s introduction that, “Today science and theology are more aware of...
Movies
Movie Review: Taking Woodstock
July 28, 2026Though his oeuvre includes everything from melodrama to martial arts, Lee’s most endearing projects are intimate,...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
July 28, 2026Smart though Tarantino may be, his self-aggrandizing filmic techniques grow old. Placing arrows and title cards...
Movies
Movie Review: District 9
July 28, 2026It is perhaps the most dystopian vision of alien contact ever filmed: the aliens are not...
Art & Design
Ron Arad: No Discipline at MoMA
July 28, 2026The experience of viewing “No Discipline,” the first major U.S. retrospective of the virtuosic, Israeli-born designer...
Fiction Reviews
Knife Song Korea by Richard Selzer
July 28, 2026On arriving at his small and isolated army base in Korea, Sloane is met by Larry...
Fiction Reviews
The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King
July 27, 2026Most of the narratives are first-person accounts by Mary, so readers get to know her very...
Fiction Reviews
In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
July 27, 2026Yuri is a porter, one of Britain’s penniless immigrants that Ali would like us (and Gabe)...
Art & Design
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Science
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 18, 20262009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
Art
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
July 15, 2026Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
July 12, 2026Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
Fiction Reviews
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
July 15, 2026Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
Art & Design
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
July 27, 2026Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard
July 10, 2026These books are indeed a kind of witty parlor game, certainly. But though Bayard occasionally gallops...
Art & Design
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
July 18, 2026In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
Biography
Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets
July 22, 2026"I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as...
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