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Fiction Reviews
Flesh and Fire: Book One of the Vineart War by Laura Anne Gilman
August 10, 2026The first clue that Gilman is not going to zing this story along with Tom Clancy...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Great Dinosaur Discoveries by Darren Naish
August 10, 2026Naish states that “most dinosaur books look at current views on dinosaurs and briefly recap the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Churchill by Paul Johnson
August 10, 2026And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...
Art
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
August 10, 2026Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
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...
Fiction Reviews
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,...
Horror
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...
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
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
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
October 16, 2026Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
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...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
October 5, 2026Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
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
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
October 11, 2026The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
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