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The 10 Best Movies of the Decade (2000-2009)
August 13, 2026Wong Kar-wai’s beautiful tone poem is an ode to unrequited and impossible love. Its brilliant color...
Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Ghost King: Transitions III by R. A. Salvatore
August 13, 2026A fast-paced, heartrending book, The Ghost King is a must-read for any fans of the Drizzt...
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Movie Review: Nine
August 12, 2026Marshall apparently strove for the early 60s New Wave Cinema feel, which relied heavily on shaky...
Fiction Reviews
Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
August 12, 2026What’s remarkable about her is that she shares her story with the class simply, with a...
Movies
Movie Review: The Princess and the Frog
August 12, 2026Cinderella and Snow White are famously hardworking Disney princesses, but they were enslaved as a punishment...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson
August 12, 2026In some respects, the Thirty Years War resembles the Great War of 1914-1918. Political friction in...
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Movie Review: Avatar
August 11, 2026The story and script fail to create multifaceted characters, sticking instead to the inherent malevolence of...
Movies
Movie Review: A Single Man
August 11, 2026Based on Christopher Isherwood’s novel, the film is set in the 1960s and takes place over...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
August 11, 2026James Bradley doesn't like Theodore Roosevelt. Let's get that clear from the get-go. Nor does he...
Art
Tim Burton at MoMA
August 11, 2026Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
Fiction Reviews
Matchless by Gregory Maguire
August 10, 2026Matchless was originally composed by Maguire for the radio, and the story retains a sense of...
Fiction Reviews
Flesh and Fire: Book One of the Vineart War by Laura Anne Gilman
August 10, 2026The first clue that Gilman is not going to zing this story along with Tom Clancy...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Great Dinosaur Discoveries by Darren Naish
August 10, 2026Naish states that “most dinosaur books look at current views on dinosaurs and briefly recap the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Churchill by Paul Johnson
August 10, 2026And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...
Architecture
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
August 10, 2026Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
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Movie Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
August 9, 2026Fantastic Mr. Fox is a pleasant return to classic stop-motion animation, a technique little used anymore....
Movies
Movie Review: Me and Orson Welles
August 9, 2026Based on the novel by Richard Kaplow, Welles stars Efron as Richard Samuels, a student and...
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Movie Review: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
August 8, 2026Robin Wright plays Pippa, a beautiful, pastel-clad homemaker nearing her 50s. As the movie opens, her...
Fiction Reviews
Love and Summer by William Trevor
August 8, 2026Why is it that summer can never last forever, especially when we want it to? The...
Architecture
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
August 10, 2026Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
August 5, 2026Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
Art & Design
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 7, 2026The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
Art
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
July 27, 2026Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
Art
Tim Burton at MoMA
August 11, 2026Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
Movies
Movie Review: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
August 8, 2026Comedian Mo’Nique, best known for urban comedies like Phat Girlz and Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, gives...
History
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 3, 2026Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
Art & Design
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
August 1, 2026And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
Fiction Reviews
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
July 31, 2026But, as we see in the terrifying drawings of his radiologist father giving him neck adjustments—“kkrraackk,”...
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Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
August 16, 2026The novel opens with a striking, abrupt proclamation: “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first...
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