Movies
Movie Review: Lawless
March 24, 2026From the opening credits, framed in a colorful autumn canopy, to the final shot, a restored...
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
Movie Review: Side by Side
March 23, 2026In an early voiceover, Reeves explains that Side by Side is about “the science, art and...
Theatre
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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Movies & TV
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...
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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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Blog-Theater
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”...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Words
March 21, 2026In an age when originality is almost anathema to filmmaking (Hollywood, especially), it is exciting and...
Books
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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Television
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...
Fiction Reviews
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...
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
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Art
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Non-Fiction Reviews
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
June 23, 2026The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
June 27, 2026From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 19, 2026The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
June 30, 2026"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
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...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Einstein in Japan
June 30, 2026The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
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