Movies & TV
Vegas Recap: ‘Masquerade’ (Season 1, Episode 9)
February 15, 2026And I have to say, while I admired Carrie-Anne Moss coming into this series, so far...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Angels With Dirty Faces, #46
February 15, 2026Some movies hold up well over time. This one doesn’t. We wanted to like Angels with...
Italy
Book Review: Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale
February 15, 2026Seeing a paint brush on the floor, the emperor reached down to retrieve it and presented...
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Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker
February 15, 2026Instead of whipping out a small nutcracker that Drosselmeyer later makes big, the nutcracker should be...
Music
Album Review: Crystal Castles’ III
February 14, 2026After a high-pitched intro reminiscent of the entry into a horror film, the bass explodes into...
Movies
Movie Review: On The Road
February 14, 2026Salles treats the material with a needless seriousness. It brings the bodies of the chapters of...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
February 14, 2026Seeking to reclaim their home and treasure from the dragon Smaug, the group heads to their...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Central Park Five
February 14, 2026The police grilled the boys for over 12 hours, eventually convincing each one that the others...
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Movies
Early Review: Warm Bodies
February 13, 2026The latest attempt to capitalize on the zombie craze, Warm Bodies tries to provide a different...
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Movies
Movie Review: Django Unchained
February 13, 2026The real gem, though, is Jackson as Stephen, a character so loathsome that audiences will want...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: M, #45
February 13, 2026A child murderer is terrorizing the city. The police hunt is intense, but fruitless. So the...
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Movies & TV
The Worst High Profile Christmas Movies Ever Made
February 13, 2026The tone for the entire film is mostly depressed, angry, pessimistic, and confused, which is best...
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Movies & TV
Vegas Recap: ‘Estinto’ (Season 1, Episode 10)
February 13, 2026Another plus — the writers continue to explore the far western cultural landscape. Tonight we get...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: A Prophet, #44
February 12, 2026As a prison movie, it would rank in our all-time Top 10. As a gangster movie,...
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Art
Art Review: Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels, Denver Art Museum
February 12, 2026Her canvases are vast, and painted in bold swathes of cartoonishly bright colors. The subject matter...
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Theatre
Broadway Review: Dead Accounts Starring Katie Holmes
February 11, 2026Everyone notices Jack’s flamboyant behavior and his sudden preponderance of cash. Jack evades their questions until,...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Astray by Emma Donoghue
February 11, 2026Though some stories in Astray are more poignant than others, Donoghue once again shows herself to...
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Movies
Movie Review: Promised Land
February 11, 2026In certain movies, there comes a single moment that completely changes one's opinion of it. It...
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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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