Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Movies
Movie Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
August 9, 2026Fantastic Mr. Fox is a pleasant return to classic stop-motion animation, a technique little used anymore....
Movies
Movie Review: Me and Orson Welles
August 9, 2026Based on the novel by Richard Kaplow, Welles stars Efron as Richard Samuels, a student and...
Movies
Movie Review: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
August 8, 2026Robin Wright plays Pippa, a beautiful, pastel-clad homemaker nearing her 50s. As the movie opens, her...
Great Britain
Love and Summer by William Trevor
August 8, 2026Why is it that summer can never last forever, especially when we want it to? The...
Movies
Movie Review: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
August 8, 2026Comedian Mo’Nique, best known for urban comedies like Phat Girlz and Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, gives...
Movies
Movie Review: New Moon
August 8, 2026The movie positively drags at two hours eleven minutes; when the kids at the front of...
Art
Directions: John Gerrard at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
August 8, 2026So what are today’s landscape artists telling us? In his eponymous show at the Hirshhorn, John...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs by Jeni Stepanek
August 8, 2026He explains it in his journals as “Whatever it is that a person needs or wants,...
Fiction Reviews
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
August 7, 2026Even so, to hold The Lacuna in one’s hand, to read it, is to witness and...
Movies
Movie Review: Pirate Radio
August 7, 2026Aside from the lack of a true protagonist, a number of small story arcs fall a...
Non-Fiction Reviews
My Prison, My Home: One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran by Haleh Esfandiari
August 7, 2026Her jail term of one hundred and five days was the culmination of an eight-month ordeal....
Art
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 7, 2026The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
Fiction Reviews
Under the Dome by Stephen King
August 6, 2026Still, despite the ending, this is King’s best work in years, a richly textured novel of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey
August 6, 2026The 19th century science known as phrenology — which posited that the human skull conforms to...
Movies
Movie Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats
August 6, 2026Imagine a world in which the military trains soldiers not to kill enemies of the state,...
Art
Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort at The National Museum of the American Indian
August 6, 2026The first piece you see upon entering is Shapeshifter (2000), an enormous, abstracted whale skeleton built...
Fiction Reviews
The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
August 5, 2026She’s developed an enjoyable way of beginning novels in the middle of a story, letting her...
Non-Fiction Reviews
In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
August 5, 2026Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
Movies
Movie Review: The Maid
August 5, 2026It’s in this last third of the film that Catalina Saavedra’s performance as Raquel carries the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
August 5, 2026The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
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...
Top Posts & Pages
Trending
Contributors
