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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
June 29, 2025Homans' concluding remarks, cogent and powerfully expressed like the rest of Apollo's Angels, are going to...
Theatre
Theater Review: A Free Man of Color Starring Jeffrey Wright
June 29, 2025Given the grandeur of its lofty aspirations, the play inevitably fails on some levels, like the...
Movies
Movie Review: Tangled
June 29, 2025Tangled isn’t too cool for school, it’s just really cool, and once the film stops apologizing...
Theatre
Theater Review: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Starring Patti LuPone, Sherie Rene Scott
June 29, 2025Patti LuPone, however, does not stumble. In her mesmerizing performance of the show’s best song “Invisible”...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Thanksgiving Dinner Edition!
June 29, 2025In this edition of The Weekly Listicle, we take a moment to be thankful for our...
Design
Art Review: Alessi: Ethical and Radical at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
June 28, 2025The Tea and Coffee Piazza sets, produced in limited editions of ninety-nine, with three artist’s proofs,...
Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
June 28, 2025Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Fun Inc.: Why Gaming Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century by Tom Chatfield
June 28, 2025One element of the gaming industry that will surprise some readers is the billions of dollars...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Nemesis by Philip Roth
June 28, 2025Weequahic has been particularly hard-hit by the summer’s polio epidemic. Bucky, stuck supervising his school playground’s...
Movies
Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
June 27, 2025With the Potter books, J.K. Rowling fashioned one of the most intricately detailed fantasy lands in...
Art
Vandalism in the Name of the Lord: Kathleen Folden and “The Misadventures of Romantic Cannibals”
June 27, 2025On October 6, 2010, Kathleen Folden, identified in the media as a 56-year-old truck driver from...
Movies
Movie Review: Unstoppable
June 27, 2025The story is just substantial enough to tie all the screeching, sparking train chases together. We...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: A Science Ficsticle
June 27, 2025Color me unimpressed based on the trailers for Skyline. This week’s big release Skyline looks…well, it...
Best Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Worlds Of Fancy And Other Wondrous Places
June 26, 2025A cleverly rendered fantasy world has the power to make us believe astounding things, and to...
Movies
Movie Review: Morning Glory
June 26, 2025Morning Glory is a film about morning people. I hate morning people. They’re chipper in the...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Heroes Who Suck
June 26, 2025Heroes don’t HAVE to be boring stand-ins for the audience (I’m looking at you, everyone who...
Biography
Book Review: How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
June 26, 2025Born nearly five hundred years ago, Montaigne was one of the last great thinkers of the...
Humor
Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 4: We Are All Children Of Paradise
June 25, 2025A movie can do a lot of things to an audience. It may move them, amuse...
After Image
Christo in Colorado
June 25, 2025"Over the River" would consist of 5.9 miles of silver fabric draped like an intermittent canopy...
Movies
Movie Review: 127 Hours
June 25, 2025It’s these moments that comprise the film’s greater theme, that in his final (127) hours even...
Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
Movies
Why Clash of the Titans might be “The Worst Movie Ever Made”
September 4, 2026Is Clash of the Titans one of the worst movies ever made? William Bibbiani makes an...
Art
How to Get Your Work in the Louvre? Hang it up Yourself!
September 9, 2026Ironically, while Mr. Guérineau has indicated a desire to infuse France’s museums with fresh blood and...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Percy Jackson The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
September 25, 2026For many years now Chris Columbus and I have had an understanding: He can suck as...
Movies
Bret Easton Ellis: Film requires the male gaze, female directors need not apply
September 15, 2026Movieline printed an interview with author Bret Easton Ellis, whose most famous work is probably American...
Art
Running Fence: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Masterpiece Revisited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
September 7, 2026While one might be tempted to attribute the project's failure to grandiose ambition, the success of...
Art & Design
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
September 18, 2026In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
Art
Art Review: Kurt, at the Seattle Art Museum, Explores Kurt Cobain’s Influence on Contemporary Artists
September 17, 2026Nearby, Jeffry Mitchell’s portrait as Kurt is arguably the hidden gem of the exhibit. Self-Portrait as...
Art
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
September 27, 2026How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
Art
The Life and Work of Eadweard Muybridge
September 13, 2026Muybridge had married his young assistant, in 1871. After a while, he began to suspect that...
Art
Alice Leora Briggs: Art from Juárez
September 18, 2026While Briggs subject matter is unpleasant, her work has a dark beauty and an immediacy not...
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