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Movie Review: The Man with the Iron Fists
February 28, 2026The Man with the Iron Fists is nothing if not enthusiastic, its narrative fits and starts...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Prosperous Friends by Christine Schutt
February 28, 2026A mile wide and an inch deep? Not Christine Schutt’s Prosperous Friends. Quite the opposite. It’s...
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Movie Review: Maniac
February 28, 2026Satire, serious, or schlock? That was the question playing through my mind during Maniac, director Franck...
Dance
Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet’s Constellation: Ballet in Bright Lights
February 28, 2026Strings of LED lights take the form of square panels, and dancers wear or carry them...
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The Mob Doctor Recap: ‘Legacy’ (Season 1, Episode 5)
February 28, 2026And The Mob Doctor’s back! For now, at least. Judging by the previews, next week’s episode...
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The Office Recap: The Boat (Season 9, Episode 6)
February 28, 2026A review/recap of The Office: The Boat (Season 9, Episode 6)
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Revolution Recap: The Children’s Crusade (Season 1, Episode 7)
February 27, 2026A recap/review of Revolution: The Children's Crusade (Season 1, Episode 7)
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Movies
Movie Review: Lincoln
February 27, 2026As expected, Day-Lewis breathes life into Abraham Lincoln. And, as expected, he’s fantastic to watch, even...
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Movies
Early Review: John Dies At The End Starring Paul Giamatti
February 27, 2026The lead two actors have good chemistry, Clancy Brown is always a welcome sight, and the...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Mesrine: Killer Instinct, Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 — #51
February 27, 2026Jacques Mesrine was one of the most notorious criminals in France during the 1960s and 1970s....
Movies & TV
Game of the Week: LSU vs. Mississippi State — The View from England
February 27, 2026After last week’s loss to the Crimson Tide, LSU’s Tigers might have felt they had something...
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Movies
Movie Review: Skyfall
February 26, 2026Our latter-day Bond, played to perfection by Daniel Craig, has re-energized the character created by novelist...
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The Walking Dead Recap: “Say the Word” (Season 3, Episode 5)
February 26, 2026I went out of town at precisely the wrong moment (though being in Washington, DC on...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Through the Eye of a Needle by Peter Brown
February 25, 2026Brown writes that Christian leaders had to carefully deploy Church resources, spiritual and financial, to create...
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Movies & TV
The Mob Doctor Recap: ‘Complications’ (Season 1, Episode 6)
February 25, 2026We got to see Grace being a badass, and the curiously intense Oedipal bond between Constantine...
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Movies & TV
Vegas Recap: ‘The Real Thing’ (Season 1, Episode 6)
February 25, 2026Lamb and Savino discuss the fake chips as, a few floors down, a uniformed employee of...
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Movies & TV
Revolution Recap: Ties That Bind (Season 1, Episode 8)
February 25, 2026A recap/review of Revolution: Ties That Bind (Season 1, Episode 8)
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Art
Art Review: Becoming Van Gogh, Denver Art Museum
February 25, 2026But it was at that moment that he discovered Japanese prints, rapidly assimilating all he could...
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Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed 3
February 25, 2026This front of AC3’s story is thankfully stronger, weaving an interesting and refreshingly mature narrative about...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Midnight Run, #50
February 25, 2026This is The Odd Couple on the run from the mob. And it works primarily—if not...
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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