Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Non-Fiction Reviews
Friendship is the First Step to Peace: A Review of Picture Books that Highlight Our Getting Along
June 1, 2026Sometimes, feeling different is the root of feeling lonely. Ezra Jack Keats’ whimsical Regards To The...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson
May 31, 2026...essentially, the book remains a story of British upper classes and the author has seemingly trawled...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Talk With Cullen Murphy, Author of Are We Rome?
May 31, 2026"That said, the thinking that lay behind the invasion of Iraq—the notion that we could transform...
Fiction Reviews
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
May 30, 2026This relationship — Mari, plain and studious; Eri, "gorgeous" and shallow — is our first intimation...
Fiction Reviews
Book of Hours
May 30, 2026Clocks, with their symbolic freight of time and plot, can serve as weapons with which the...
Fiction Reviews
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
May 29, 2026Repression, fear and even loathing run through her mind as she braces herself for what is...
Environment
Sophie Osborn on Saving the California Condor
May 29, 2026"I think hunters need to start demanding more research into the human health impacts of hunting...
Non-Fiction Reviews
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Discusses Hip Hop’s Attitude Toward Women
May 29, 2026"The title was inspired by Snoop Dogg. It captures the ethos of the new gender politics...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Once Upon A Time
May 29, 2026Suppose one’s made a viable, literate translation that succeeds in conveying the narrative or expository sense...
China
An Interview With Novelist Nicole Mones
May 29, 2026"I know food is hot right now – we have the Food Network – but believe...
Sports
An Interview With “Pistol Pete” Maravich Biographer Mark Kriegel
May 29, 2026"One of the components of genius, I would argue, is an unnaturally high tolerance for practice....
Architecture
An Interview With Louis Kahn Biographer Carter Wiseman
May 28, 2026"I think the most powerful common thread running through Kahn’s work was his humanity. He seems...
Psychology
Allen Shawn Discusses Phobias
May 28, 2026"When I finally encountered the concept of ‘agoraphobia’, I recognized myself. I have an intense fear...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Brave New West: Something Entirely Different
May 27, 2026Are environmentalists really prepared to embrace a simpler, less materialistic life? Or do they still want...
Movies
Family Values
May 27, 2026Their glossy and frequently rather smug “postmodernism”, which refuses to acknowledge any authority other than previous...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Believers and Infidels
May 27, 2026For the first time there was a feeling that technologically, economically and politically, as well as...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Dear Minister, America is Headed Down; Can It Reverse Course?
May 27, 2026In my view, the Americans’ most serious problem for the longer term is the development of...
Great Britain
Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the British Blues Revival
May 27, 2026Interest in Rosetta in Britain was part and parcel of a larger trend: the postwar blues...
Fiction Reviews
Brontë in Brussels
May 27, 2026I recently stumbled upon a scene which would have appealed to Brontë’s eye for cross-cultural interactions:...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Tommy’s Honor by Kevin Cook
May 27, 2026Sheep wallows eventually became sand traps and the first greens were nothing more than somewhat level...
Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
After Image
How to Get Your Work in the Louvre? Hang it up Yourself!
September 9, 2026Ironically, while Mr. Guérineau has indicated a desire to infuse France’s museums with fresh blood and...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Percy Jackson The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
September 25, 2026For many years now Chris Columbus and I have had an understanding: He can suck as...
Movies
Bret Easton Ellis: Film requires the male gaze, female directors need not apply
September 15, 2026Movieline printed an interview with author Bret Easton Ellis, whose most famous work is probably American...
Art
Running Fence: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Masterpiece Revisited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
September 7, 2026While one might be tempted to attribute the project's failure to grandiose ambition, the success of...
Art & Design
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
September 18, 2026In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
Art
Art Review: Kurt, at the Seattle Art Museum, Explores Kurt Cobain’s Influence on Contemporary Artists
September 17, 2026Nearby, Jeffry Mitchell’s portrait as Kurt is arguably the hidden gem of the exhibit. Self-Portrait as...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
June 10, 2025Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
Art
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
September 27, 2026How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
Art
The Life and Work of Eadweard Muybridge
September 13, 2026Muybridge had married his young assistant, in 1871. After a while, he began to suspect that...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
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