Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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...
Fiction Reviews
Vanessa and Virginia by Susan Sellers
August 5, 2026As a cultural, literary, and historical icon, Virginia Woolf was celebrated by contemporaries and has continued...
Music
Nicole Atkins: Femme Noir
August 4, 2026She’s been called the female Roy Orbison, a psychedelic metalhead who grew up listening to Elvis...
Movies
Movie Review: Amelia
August 4, 2026Furthermore, Nair chooses to play it safe by directing an uninspiring paint-by-numbers biopic complete with voice-overs...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
August 4, 2026The unit of measure is a “Darwin,” so named by famed geneticist J. B. S. Haldane....
Movies
Movie Review: Paranormal Activity
August 4, 2026The film falls short by arranging a regrettably thin layer of spooky occurrences beneath a thicker...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series by Mark Frost
August 4, 2026Baseball’s World Series. 1975. The Cincinnati Reds, manager Sparky Anderson’s Big Red Machine, are up 3...
Fiction Reviews
The Child Thief by Brom
August 3, 2026There are moments of genuine mystery and magic, scenes where we are bedazzled and terrified simultaneously....
Movies
Movie Review: Where the Wild Things Are
August 3, 2026Although studios balked at the film’s maturity, believing it might be too scary for children, it...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex
August 3, 2026And those names: JenniferBlowdryer, Sinnamon Love. Sebastian Horsely, a male prostitute, of course. Horsely advocates the...
Movies
Movie Review: Zombieland
August 3, 2026Zombieland elicits comparison to both the Brit “romzomcom” (romantic zombie comedy) and Dawn of the Dead...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 3, 2026Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
Fiction Reviews
The Bigness of the World by Lori Ostlund
August 2, 2026The Bigness of the World, Ostlund's first collection of short stories, was good enough for the...
Fiction Reviews
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
August 2, 2026Mawer’s The Glass Room is a genuine intellectual achievement—a breath-taking story of love and its loss,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
With Hitler to the End: The Memoir of Hitler’s Valet by Heinz Linge
August 2, 2026Unfortunately the book, while delivering a few marginal insights into Hitler’s character, motivations and global strategies,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
August 2, 2026It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
Art
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
August 1, 2026And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
History
Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
August 1, 2026Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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....
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...
The Fourth Wall
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...
After Image
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
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 & Design
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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