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Introducing…William Bibbiani!
August 16, 2026While Snowmageddon, Part One raged around us here on the east coast, the amazing and talented...
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Video Game Review: Dark Void
August 16, 2026The bad guys are alien robot Nazis (effectively combining every faceless antagonist in videogame history), Will...
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Movie Review: Legion
August 16, 2026According to the script, God has lost faith in humanity, ostensibly because he grew “tired of...
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Movie Review: From Paris With Love
August 16, 2026Structural difficulties, failed attempts at levity and below-par action sequences would be bad enough, but sadly...
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Michelangelo: A Tormented Life by Antonio Forcellino
August 16, 2026Before dawn on the morning of February 18 a group of Florentines entered the church stealthily...
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Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
August 16, 2026The novel opens with a striking, abrupt proclamation: “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first...
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Fables: The Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 by Bill Willingham
August 15, 2026But without a doubt, it’s the series that he began seven years ago, Fables, that has...
Fiction Reviews
Small Wars by Sadie Jones
August 15, 2026The conflict becomes a war in which, “…there was no truth. It was a nothing, laughable...
Art
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
August 15, 2026Oliver won’t socialize. He won’t even speak. He simply spends his days wrapped in his obsession,...
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Video Game Review: Bayonetta
August 15, 2026She also wears glasses, which may pass for originality these days but is thematically appropriate because...
Art
Portraiture Now: Communities at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
August 15, 2026The astonishing amount of detail, the tremendous amount of work that went into crafting the tiny...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Some Like It Hot: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion by Laurence Maslon
August 14, 2026There’s plenty about Monroe, of course — her perpetual lateness to the set, her entourage (especially...
Fiction Reviews
You or Someone Like You by Chandler Burr
August 14, 2026The religious and cultural tensions present in this book, while controversial, are always handled with grace...
Art
Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
August 14, 2026In Roberto Cuoghi’s 2006 portrait of Davide Halevim, one of the highlights of the section entitled...
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The Top 10 Movies of 2009
August 14, 2026At the end, she’s back at square one leading the student life, but inside, she’s grown...
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Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes
August 13, 2026Ritchie, whose previous films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch are cult favorites, brings...
Fiction Reviews
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
August 13, 2026For Last Night in Twisted River is the work of a seasoned tale-teller, a writer who...
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The 10 Best Movies of the Decade (2000-2009)
August 13, 2026Wong Kar-wai’s beautiful tone poem is an ode to unrequited and impossible love. Its brilliant color...
Fiction Reviews
The Ghost King: Transitions III by R. A. Salvatore
August 13, 2026A fast-paced, heartrending book, The Ghost King is a must-read for any fans of the Drizzt...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Critics’ Picks: Best Books of 2009
August 13, 2026Our annual selection of noteworthy books.
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,...
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In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
August 5, 2026Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
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,...
Art & Design
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
July 27, 2026Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
Art
Tim Burton at MoMA
August 11, 2026Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
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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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 3, 2026Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
Art & Design
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
August 1, 2026And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
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,”...
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Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
August 16, 2026The novel opens with a striking, abrupt proclamation: “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first...
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