Art
Remembering Robert Hughes – Re-watching American Visions
March 26, 2026On another note entirely, the eighth and final episode offers the enduring pleasures of Hughes’s prickly...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 by Scott Zesch
March 26, 2026As the 1860's ended, the steadily growing numbers of Chinese immigrants led to fears that eventually...
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Dance
Summertime Digital Dance Quiz
March 26, 2026Which was more important to you in Billy Elliot—the dancing or the plot?
Movies
Movie Review: Cosmopolis
March 25, 2026The short shelf lives of even the best individuals. The apathy towards one’s surroundings. The vibe...
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Movies & TV
Breaking Bad Recap: ‘Say My Name’ (Season 5, Episode 7)
March 25, 2026Mike’s murder isn’t just scary because it’s pointless, it’s upsetting because it’s not in Walt’s own...
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Movies & TV
The Newsroom Recap: The Greater Fool (Season 1, Episode 10)
March 25, 2026Photos courtesy of Melissa Moseley/HBO Last night’s episode of The Newsroom was the season finale, a...
Books
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
March 25, 2026Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
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Phobias
True Blood Recap: Season 5 Raises The Stakes
March 25, 2026True Blood has tightened up considerably since the meandering adventures of Season 4, despite the fact...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
March 24, 2026As befits a former poet, Hughes’s writing is economical yet stylish, atmospheric without being fussy. And...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Things Change, #61
March 24, 2026When the courtly Ameche saw that the script required him to curse, he held up the...
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Movies
Movie Review: Lawless
March 24, 2026From the opening credits, framed in a colorful autumn canopy, to the final shot, a restored...
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Dance
Interview with the Late Mirta Hermida, Headmistress of the Cuban National Ballet School
March 23, 2026Understanding that dancers’ careers had a limited time span and usually ended at the age of...
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Movies & TV
Movie Review: Side by Side
March 23, 2026In an early voiceover, Reeves explains that Side by Side is about “the science, art and...
Blog-Theater
Theatre Review: Three Men In A Boat, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, England
March 23, 2026There are laughs to be had, but this feels more like a sketch than a fully-fledged...
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Art
American Mythologies: Grant Wood at the RNC
March 23, 2026But, the painting tells us, to impose order is also to fictionalize, to distort. It’s a...
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Television
Doctor Who Recap: ‘Asylum of the Daleks’ (Season 33/Series 7, Episode 1)
March 23, 2026When you get that much before the theme tune it’s probably going to be a good...
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Sleeping Dogs
March 23, 2026Taking massive cues from Hong Kong action cinema, especially “Heroic Bloodshed” classics like City on Fire...
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Movies & TV
Breaking Bad Recap: ‘Gliding Over All’ (Season 5, Episode 8)
March 22, 2026Two montages in one episode, guys! This one is set, adorably, to “Crystal Blue Persuasion” by...
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Theatre
Is there life after Fringe? Four shows that deserve longer runs.
March 22, 2026In the meantime we Fringe attendees enjoy compiling our personal wish lists. Here, in addition to...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub
March 21, 2026The feelings and experiences that preoccupy Straub are pregnancy and motherhood, friendship and domestic partnership. The...
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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