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...
100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Bugsy, #60
March 21, 2026Back home on the East Coast, he tells Lansky, “What do people always fantasize about? Sex,...
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Theatre
Upcoming Season at the National Theatre, London: Sept. ‘12 – Feb. ‘13
March 21, 2026Arthur Wing Pinero is another British talent getting a lot of attention at the moment, though...
Sports
Game of the Week: UCF vs Ohio State — The View from England
March 21, 2026Paying or not paying student athletes is a labor issue, just as the term “student athlete”...
Movies
Movie Review: The Words
March 21, 2026In an age when originality is almost anathema to filmmaking (Hollywood, especially), it is exciting and...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
March 21, 2026The Garden of Evening Mists is set in three inter-linked time frames. Past and present struggle...
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Video Games
Setting Fallout 4 Part 1 (of 2) – How the West Was Fun
March 21, 2026But to do so would be to miss the point more than your Facebook friend who...
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Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 4, Episode 1
March 20, 2026The next time a BBC arts show wants to talk about works which explore the British...
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Movies
Movie Review: Resident Evil: Retribution
March 20, 2026No, Resident Evil isn’t an exemplar of well-crafted story, subtle dialogue, or flawless continuity, but it...
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Movies & TV
Doctor Who Recap: ‘Dinosaurs On A Spaceship’ (Season 33/Series 7, Episode 2)
March 19, 2026Secondly, there were loads of little things that really intrigue me. I daresay I’m a bit...
Books
Book Review: This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
March 19, 2026Perhaps it’s fair to say that the big accomplishment of Diaz’s new book is that it...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Mass Effect: Leviathan and Extended Cut DLCs
March 19, 2026The premise itself is sinister; an elusive entity called the Leviathan proves all too tempting a...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Heat, #59
March 19, 2026This is an organized crime movie in the literal sense of that term. It’s not about...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Master
March 19, 2026The Master's really an existential voyage where The Cause, alcohol, sex, and loyalty serve as poor...
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Movies & TV
Blu-Ray Review: The Cabin In The Woods
March 18, 2026© 2012 Lionsgate This super-secret brainchild of screenwriters Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon came shrouded as...
Movies & TV
Revolution Recap: Pilot (Season 1, Episode 1)
March 18, 2026A recap/review of Revolution: Pilot (Season 1, Episode1)
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Movies & TV
Doctor Who Recap: ‘A Town Called Mercy’ (Season 33/Series 7, Episode 3)
March 18, 2026Indeed, why has he bothered to dress the part at all? After all, you’re never really...
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Blog-Theater
Laurie Anderson Surveys the Wreckage
March 18, 2026Appearing in a loose-fitting white shirt and tie, black slacks and white shoes, and sporting a...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Jackie Brown, #58
March 18, 2026The cast is major league. Pam Grier reestablished her career playing the title character and Robert...
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Dance
How Social Media Has Energized Small Arts Organizations — An Interview with Diablo Ballet’s Dan Meagher
March 18, 2026For small companies like Diablo Ballet, social media has come into the forefront as a cost-effective...
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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