Theatre
Theatre Review: The Duchess of Malfi, the Old Vic, London
April 25, 2026It has an older woman marrying her employee in secret, her incestuously-inclined brother who believes he...
Movies
Movie Review: Moonrise Kingdom
April 25, 2026These off-realities of Wes Anderson's movies also enable him to create gorgeous works, and Moonrise Kingdom...
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Great Britain
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 5
April 24, 2026Of course we can’t know what goes on in the writers’ rooms, but combining Martin’s hand-turned...
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Blog-Dance
Dance to the Music: National Youth Orchestras of Chile
April 24, 2026My father, Hugo Domínguez, had been Hen’s assistant, and one day they were walking in a...
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Television
The Killing Recap: Bulldog (Season 2, Episode 11)
April 24, 2026A recap/review of The Killing Bulldog (Season 2, Episode 11)
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Blog-Music
Album Review: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’ Here
April 24, 2026This is the music of firepits and families, and tells the story of the everyman trudging...
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Dance
Claiming Cranko’s Shrewd Choreography: An Interview with Andreza Randisek and Rodrigo Guzmán
April 24, 2026This ballet is so hard! It will never go perfectly no matter how much you rehearse....
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Art
Two New York City Exhibits Explore the Art and Culture of Renaissance Venice
April 23, 2026The Venetians during the Renaissance were a confident and resilient people. Even as their dominions were...
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Movies & TV
Movie Review: Prometheus
April 23, 2026Early in the film, we meet Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Dr. Charlie Holloway (Logan...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “Commissions and Fees” (Season 5, Episode 12)
April 23, 2026Well. Did you see that coming? I suppose I did, but it was still a stunner...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Analyze This, #73
April 23, 2026The film succeeds because of strong performances by its two stars. Veteran comic actor Billy Crystal...
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Diablo III
April 23, 2026Herein dwells the problem. The treatment of your combatants as mere faceless fodder makes gameplay as...
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Movies
Trailer Watch: Django Unchained
April 22, 2026After countless musical and stylistic hints in films like Kill Bill and em>Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino...
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Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 6
April 22, 2026You wonder if you’re hallucinating the whiff of gender politics until Nicola turns up. I love...
Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Donnie or Marie (Season 2, Episode 12)
April 22, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: Donnie or Marie (Season 2, Episode 12)
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap – Series 2, Episode 1
April 22, 2026You know what’s good about Merlin? (No, not that, we’re leaving that ‘til the second paragraph,...
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Movies
Trailer Watch: Wreck-It Ralph
April 22, 2026What sounds funnier: a genre-hopping quest across the video game spectrum by a generic galoot drawn...
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Movies
Movie Review: Safety Not Guaranteed
April 21, 2026Safety Not Guaranteed is a movie that creeps up on you, in a very friendly and...
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Music
EP Review: Sara Bareilles’ Once Upon Another Time
April 21, 2026Opening with such an incredibly slow track, melodic but free of refrain and rambling, is a...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: American Me, #72
April 21, 2026But the gang becomes even more powerful behind bars, controlling the drug trade out on the...
Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
June 11, 2026This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
History
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
June 9, 2026Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
Fiction Reviews
William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
June 7, 2026"The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
June 16, 2026"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
Non-Fiction Reviews
What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
May 22, 2026What The Buddha Taught accurately describes itself as a reliable introduction to Buddhism. As a religion...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
May 23, 2026In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...
Fiction Reviews
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
Non-Fiction Reviews
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
June 7, 2026I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
June 7, 2026"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
June 3, 2026In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
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