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The Mob Doctor Recap: Pilot Episode
March 17, 2026Dr. Grace Devlin (Jordana Spiro) has promised her services to Southside crime boss Paul Moretti (Michael...
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Setting Fallout 4 Pt. 2 (of 2) – On The Road Again!
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The Office Recap: The New Guys (Season 9, Episode 1)
March 17, 2026A recap/review of The Office: The New Guys (Season 9, Episode 1)
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: NW by Zadie Smith
March 16, 2026By calling her newest novel NW, Zadie Smith follows in the tradition of other writers, including...
Movies
Movie Review: End of Watch
March 16, 2026End Of Watch is a perfectly serviceable drama. It is also a bait and switch job....
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The Thick of It Recap – Series 4, Episode 3
March 16, 2026The Thick of It neatly sidesteps the continual temptation to set off squibs about thought-space and...
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Doctor Who Recap: ‘The Power of Three’ (Season 33/Series 7, Episode 4)
March 16, 2026The idea of the cube invasion was interesting, and the picture of the Doctor moving in...
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Movies
Movie Review: Dredd 3D
March 16, 2026Please forgive the crassness because there is no more eloquent way to say it: Dredd 3D...
Movies & TV
Revolution Recap: Chained Heat (Season 1, Episode 2)
March 16, 2026A recap/review of Revolution: Chained Heat (Season 1, Episode 2)
Sports
Game of the Week: Florida State vs Clemson — The View from England
March 15, 2026The structure of the college game provides terrific narratives because it squashes the entire career of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg
March 15, 2026The time between New Year’s 1956 and April 1958 was a period of general uncertainty and...
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Theatre
Broadway Review: Chaplin
March 15, 2026All in all, the show is most remarkable for its performances, especially the lead. McClure nimbly...
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The Mob Doctor Recap: ‘Family Secrets’ (Season 1, Episode 2)
March 15, 2026William Forsythe as Constantine is by far the best thing about this show, a mix of...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Kill the Irishman, #57
March 15, 2026Greene’s story is told in the excellent 2011 biopic, Kill the Irishman, which covers his rise...
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The Office Recap: Roy’s Wedding (Season 9, Episode 2)
March 14, 2026A review/recap of The Office: Roy's Wedding (Season 9, Episode 2)
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Movies
Movie Review: Looper
March 14, 2026With Looper, Johnson takes on science-fiction, but in his own signature approach that comes at the...
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Movies & TV
Vegas Recap: Pilot Episode
March 14, 2026And…I’ll be honest. Of the two new shows I’m recapping, at this point I actually like...
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Art & Design
Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries — Jewish Museum of New York
March 14, 2026To look at one of the treasures on display in this wonderful exhibit, the Kennicott Bible,...
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Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 4, Episode 4
March 14, 2026This is a special day for Malcolm, a sort of homecoming. He’s preparing a coup against...
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Sports
Game of the Week: Penn State vs Illinois — The View from England
March 13, 2026Sanctions are appropriate because there is a potential worry that the culture of Penn State football...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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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