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Movie Review: Black Swan
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Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles
June 29, 2025Sometimes a movie's title appears to be a secret known only to the writer. Sometimes it...
Art & Design
Art Review: John Baldessari: Pure Beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
June 29, 2025There is a big fuss about Pure Beauty, John Baldessari’s retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of...
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...
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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...
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Catching Up With 2010: Percy Jackson The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
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In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
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Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
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All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
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After Image
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
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 14, 2026Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
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The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
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