Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Non-Fiction Reviews
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....
Non-Fiction Reviews
Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
July 31, 2026Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American. Karl Marx contributed almost...
Fiction Reviews
The Twelve by William Gladstone
July 31, 2026This novel follows the exploits of intellectual and spiritual wunderkind Max Doff who, even as an...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks by Ethan Gilsdorf
July 31, 2026The Otherkin Resource Center (ORC) exists for people who don’t believe they are human. Elves, vampires,...
Fiction Reviews
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
July 31, 2026But, as we see in the terrifying drawings of his radiologist father giving him neck adjustments—“kkrraackk,”...
Movies
Movie Review: 9
July 30, 2026The film is truly gorgeous to behold. Starz Animation has officially given Pixar a run for...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: The September Issue
July 30, 2026From pink to black and from Paris to Bryant Park, this flashy documentary by R.J. Cutler...
Fiction Reviews
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
July 30, 2026She sees faces in the flaking walls of the kitchen, fears for the soul of a...
Fiction Reviews
The Big Machine by Victor LaValle
July 30, 2026The Big Machine is what urban fantasy looks like when it’s grown up and the writer...
Fiction Reviews
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
July 29, 2026Krista and Aaron eventually do meet, in a shocking incident that leaves little space for spoken...
Fiction Reviews
Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
July 29, 2026Sing in me, Muse quotes Homer (the original one). "Jacqueline, my muse, I speak to you...
Non-Fiction Reviews
From Galileo to Gell-Mann: The Wonder That Inspired The Greatest Scientists of All Time in Their Own Words
July 29, 2026Duccio Machetto opines in the book’s introduction that, “Today science and theology are more aware of...
Movies
Movie Review: Taking Woodstock
July 28, 2026Though his oeuvre includes everything from melodrama to martial arts, Lee’s most endearing projects are intimate,...
Movies
Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
July 28, 2026Smart though Tarantino may be, his self-aggrandizing filmic techniques grow old. Placing arrows and title cards...
Movies
Movie Review: District 9
July 28, 2026It is perhaps the most dystopian vision of alien contact ever filmed: the aliens are not...
Art
Ron Arad: No Discipline at MoMA
July 28, 2026The experience of viewing “No Discipline,” the first major U.S. retrospective of the virtuosic, Israeli-born designer...
Medicine
Knife Song Korea by Richard Selzer
July 28, 2026On arriving at his small and isolated army base in Korea, Sloane is met by Larry...
Fiction Reviews
The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King
July 27, 2026Most of the narratives are first-person accounts by Mary, so readers get to know her very...
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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