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Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes
January 9, 2024Ritchie, whose previous films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch are cult favorites, brings...
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The Top 10 Movies of 2009
April 20, 2025At the end, she’s back at square one leading the student life, but inside, she’s grown...
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The 10 Best Movies of the Decade (2000-2009)
April 20, 2025Wong Kar-wai’s beautiful tone poem is an ode to unrequited and impossible love. Its brilliant color...
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The Ghost King: Transitions III by R. A. Salvatore
April 20, 2025A fast-paced, heartrending book, The Ghost King is a must-read for any fans of the Drizzt...
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Movie Review: Nine
April 19, 2025Marshall apparently strove for the early 60s New Wave Cinema feel, which relied heavily on shaky...
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Critics’ Picks: Best Books of 2009
April 19, 2025Our annual selection of noteworthy books.
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Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
April 19, 2025What’s remarkable about her is that she shares her story with the class simply, with a...
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Movie Review: The Princess and the Frog
April 19, 2025Cinderella and Snow White are famously hardworking Disney princesses, but they were enslaved as a punishment...
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Movie Review: Avatar
April 18, 2025The story and script fail to create multifaceted characters, sticking instead to the inherent malevolence of...
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The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson
April 18, 2025In some respects, the Thirty Years War resembles the Great War of 1914-1918. Political friction in...
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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
April 18, 2025James Bradley doesn't like Theodore Roosevelt. Let's get that clear from the get-go. Nor does he...
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Movie Review: A Single Man
April 18, 2025Based on Christopher Isherwood’s novel, the film is set in the 1960s and takes place over...
Fiction Reviews
Matchless by Gregory Maguire
April 17, 2025Matchless was originally composed by Maguire for the radio, and the story retains a sense of...
Art & Design
Tim Burton at MoMA
April 17, 2025Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
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The Great Dinosaur Discoveries by Darren Naish
April 17, 2025Naish states that “most dinosaur books look at current views on dinosaurs and briefly recap the...
Fiction Reviews
Flesh and Fire: Book One of the Vineart War by Laura Anne Gilman
April 17, 2025The first clue that Gilman is not going to zing this story along with Tom Clancy...
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Churchill by Paul Johnson
April 16, 2025And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...
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Movie Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
April 16, 2025Fantastic Mr. Fox is a pleasant return to classic stop-motion animation, a technique little used anymore....
Art
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
April 15, 2025Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
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Movie Review: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
April 15, 2025Robin Wright plays Pippa, a beautiful, pastel-clad homemaker nearing her 50s. As the movie opens, her...
Art
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
April 15, 2025Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
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Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
April 13, 2025The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
Art & Design
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
March 23, 20252009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
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George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
March 22, 2025Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
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In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
April 12, 2025Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
Art & Design
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
April 2, 2025Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
Art & Design
Tim Burton at MoMA
April 17, 2025Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
Art & Design
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
March 23, 2025In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
Biography
Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets
March 28, 2025"I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as...
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Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
April 8, 2025Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
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