Historical Fiction
Book Review: Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins
April 27, 2026Her measured and elegant style does indeed evoke Austen, and the grace of the writing makes...
Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “The Other Woman” (Season 5, Episode 11)
April 26, 2026I’ve known a lot of men and women who quite simply can’t watch Mad Men. Watching...
Movies
Movie Review: Chernobyl Diaries
April 26, 2026What it is, though, is a robust specimen of a very particular kind of movie. It...
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Max Payne 3
April 26, 2026The Max Payne series has always been about contradiction. On the one hand, each game is...
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Movies
Trailer Watch: Les Misérables
April 26, 2026This is, in showbiz terms, the textbook definition of "a big deal." After all this anticipation,...
Music
Album review: Silversun Pickups’ Neck of the Woods
April 26, 2026The Smashing Pumpkins themselves were not the sort of people who listened to Melon Collie on...
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Movies
Movie Review: Snow White and the Huntsman
April 25, 2026After a kiss reawakens Snow White (though it may not be the kiss you’re expecting, which...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Roaring Twenties, #74
April 25, 2026Warner Brothers owned the franchise for gangster films in the 1930s. The studio capped the decade...
Writers
The Last Victorian: John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet
April 25, 2026But, even more importantly, he also struck the first modern note in the evolution of the...
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Blog-Theater
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...
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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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Music
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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Movies & TV
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 & Design
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
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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Movies & TV
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...
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
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Art
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Non-Fiction Reviews
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
June 23, 2026The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
June 27, 2026From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 19, 2026The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
June 30, 2026"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
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...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Einstein in Japan
June 30, 2026The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
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