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Agriculture
Movie Review: Food, Inc.
July 22, 2026Shocking and heartbreaking, Food, Inc. gives us those nitty-gritty details of how a tomato is grown...
Biography
Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets
July 22, 2026"I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as...
Non-Fiction Reviews
How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
July 22, 2026Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Yellowstone Drift: All of This Begins Here
July 21, 2026The Yellowstone steadily flows down to the Missouri, then Mississippi and finally the Gulf of Mexico,...
Fiction Reviews
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
July 21, 2026Deceptively plain in its phrasing, almost lethargic in its pace, The Twin is about as flat...
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
July 21, 2026Turn Coat is the 11th installment in the story of Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, Chicago’s first...
Fiction Reviews
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
July 21, 2026For people who liked Johnson’s recent National Book Award winner Tree of Smoke or his drug-laden...
Biography
Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower
July 21, 2026For someone who radiated pure joy, his beginnings were Deep South Dickensian. Born in New Orleans...
Fiction Reviews
Castle by J. Robert Lennon
July 20, 2026For all his derision, arrogance, and unreliability, Eric Loesch is not an unsympathetic protagonist. In fact,...
Fiction Reviews
The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
July 20, 2026Hill has written far fewer books about the black Luton lathe operator turned PI, but The...
Biography
Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams’ Doc Graham by Brett Friedlander and Robert Reising
July 20, 2026There's a scene in Field of Dreams where the camera lingers on a baby-faced baseball player...
Movies & TV
Who is Rita, What Was She?
July 20, 2026Rita murmured in that, silky, sultry voice from so very long ago, “Enough crap, big boy....
Non-Fiction Reviews
No Right to Remain Silent: The Tragedy at Virginia Tech by Lucinda Roy
July 19, 2026After mailing a package of video files and documents to NBC, Cho left for Norris Hall...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill
July 19, 2026Dominique’s worst luck was to have been born in Houston, Texas, the principal city of Harris...
Fiction Reviews
All the Living by C.E. Morgan
July 19, 2026For All the Living is an excellent debut for Morgan, a bold book of small incidents...
Fiction Reviews
Nuclear Jellyfish by Tim Dorsey
July 19, 2026To take on one of Dorsey’s books is to suspend notions of political correctness (thankfully) and...
True Crime
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
July 19, 2026When confronted with Cotton in a police lineup, Thompson had nary a shred of doubt that...
Art & Design
Cézanne and Beyond at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
July 18, 2026Matisse, in an essay written many years later for another Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition, appraised...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Review of In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
July 18, 2026In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. Gray Wolf Press. 2019. Hardcover, The most impressive...
Italy
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 18, 20262009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
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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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