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Book Review: Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussman
March 31, 2026A potential reader sizing up Liza Klausmann’s new novel, Tigers in Red Weather, would do well...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance
March 30, 2026The Kingdom Hearts series, on the decline for several years now, has finally been given a...
Movies & TV
The Newsroom Recap: The Blackout Part 1-Tragey Porn (Season 1, Episode 8)
March 30, 2026Photos courtesy of Melissa Moseley/HBO Over the past seven episodes, Aaron Sorkin has thrown a lot...
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Dance
Six Days in Santiago with Richard Cragun
March 29, 2026I wrote to Luz Lorca, Marcía Haydée’s assistant to ask whether Ricky happened to be in...
Death
Trailer Watch: Brandon Cronenberg’s Antiviral
March 29, 2026Cronenberg's target is the cult of celebrity. As ravenously as we seek to expose and share...
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Dance
An Interview with San Francisco Ballet Choreographer Myles Thatcher
March 29, 2026It’s like a puzzle that needs to be cracked. It may seem to me that the...
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Movies & TV
Breaking Bad Recap: ‘Dead Freight’ (Season 5, Episode 5)
March 29, 2026“You agree to that, and I will be whatever kind of partner you want me to...
Crime Fiction
Book Review: Broken Harbor by Tana French
March 29, 2026Right out of the gate, French displayed a gift for rich psychological plots, complex characterizations, and...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: True Believers by Kurt Andersen
March 29, 2026Nevertheless, Andersen’s willingness to digress, to reflect in Karen’s voice on the implications of her experiences...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Asphalt Jungle, #63
March 29, 2026This tale of a jewel theft gone wrong is credited with resetting the ground rules for...
Movies
IMAX Classics- Potential Future With Ark Re-Release?
March 28, 2026A look at the Raiders of the Lost Ark re-release and the potential benefit of putting...
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Movies & TV
A Look Back: The Expendables
March 28, 2026A Look Back at The Expendables in preparation of The Expendables II
Movies
Movie Review: The Expendables 2
March 28, 2026The Expendables 2 operates as a parody of a sequel to an already outrageous film, but...
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Movies & TV
Movie Review: Beasts of the Southern Wild
March 28, 2026Along with energy of place, comes a specific manifestation of that energy in the person of...
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Deadlight
March 28, 2026Deadlight has impressive aesthetics surrounding a center that’s almost non-existent; a perfect example of people who...
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Gay and Lesbian
NYC Fringe Report: Murder and Mayhem, California Style
March 27, 2026East Coasters rarely think of Los Angeles as a great theater town. But, as two ambitious...
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Theatre
NYC Fringe Report: Domestic Disturbances
March 27, 2026Two of the standouts, Michelle Ramoni’s June and Nancy and Camilla Ammirati’s In the Ebb take...
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Movies & TV
The Newsroom Recap: The Blackout Part 2-Mock Debate (Season 1, Episode 9)
March 26, 2026Hopefully, the season ends with something more exciting than “Mock Debate” which feels very much like...
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Movies & TV
Breaking Bad Recap: ‘Buyout’ (Season 5, Episode 6)
March 26, 2026Back at the pest control garage, Mike is in for a nasty shock – the methylamine...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Layer Cake, #62
March 26, 2026The movie’s title refers to the various strata of the chaotically violent, multibillion dollar world of...
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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