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Non-Fiction Reviews
Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan’s Most Rigorous Zen Temple by Kaoru Nonomura
June 4, 2020Why drop everything—a decent job, girlfriend, your family—and embrace rigor and sacrifice at a Zen Temple?...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Second Book of the Tao
June 4, 2020The principle idea at the core of Existentialism was the denial of Descartes’ I think, therefore...
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Fiction Reviews
Valeria’s Last Stand by Marc Fitten
June 4, 2020In the end, the story of Valeria and her Hungarian town is about the sheer difficulty...
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Fiction Reviews
The Stranger by Max Frei
June 3, 2020The Stranger is a translation of the first of a wildly popular series of novels from...
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Biography
The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden
June 3, 2020It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for...
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History
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
June 3, 2020This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941...
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Fiction Reviews
Sunnyside by Glen David Gold
June 3, 2020For Gold, like Koontz and Høeg, has a way of combining farce and futility that says...
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Fiction Reviews
The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi
June 3, 2020The personal suffering always hinges on the political. When Daadi was a little girl, her best...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Manhattan: School for Scriveners
June 2, 2020For me, it was the people themselves, their intellectual inclinations, their sophisticated speech, their crisp wit...
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Fiction Reviews
The Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff
June 2, 2020Readers who know Tanya Huff from her Blood, Smoke, and The Keeper’s Chronicles books (or even...
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Movies
Why Clash of the Titans might be “The Worst Movie Ever Made”
April 5, 2010Is Clash of the Titans one of the worst movies ever made? William Bibbiani makes an...
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Movies
Kick-Ass and the Hit-Girl debacle
April 19, 2010Chloe Grace Moretz as Hit-Girl in last weekend’s Kick-Ass In my review for Kick-Ass, I only...
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Horror
Family Values
April 28, 2020Their glossy and frequently rather smug “postmodernism”, which refuses to acknowledge any authority other than previous...
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Gay and Lesbian
Happy Birthday, NC-17!
March 29, 2010The basics of the MPAA’s rating system (from here). Oh, NC-17. You’re like that friend who’s...
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Biography
Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
April 30, 2020The universe appears to have cheated Rupert Everett. By rights, he belongs to the Edwardian age,...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Charley Varrick, #78
April 20, 2020Few filmgoers noticed Charley Varrick when it came out in 1973. After all, The Godfather, that...
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Movies & TV
Suits Recap: ‘War’ (Season 2, Episode 16)
April 17, 2020Finally, Mike reveals that that he never went to Harvard. Rachel slaps him across the face,...
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Architecture
Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + The Architecture of Flight, Denver Art Museum
April 19, 2020But if there’s one form of architecture that has come to embody our society’s conflicted relationship...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: King of New York, #77
April 20, 2020Christopher Walken plays—as only Walken can—Frank White, a drug dealer whose release from prison sets the...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “At the Codfish Ball” (Season 5, Episode 7)
April 20, 2020Sunday’s Mad Men was a bit of a doozie, and I’m late to the ball due...
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