Books
Book Review: Fairy Tales From The Brothers Grimm
February 11, 2026The value of Pullman’s new translation, I believe, lies in his willingness to encompass the darkness...
Dance
Dance Review: Hard Nut, Mark Morris Dance Group
February 10, 2026All the guests have become very drunk and the little desfile march is given over to...
Movies
Movie Review: West of Memphis
February 10, 2026Damien Echols was a “strange” young man. His long hair was dyed jet black, contrasting with...
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Theatre
Theatre Review: John Lithgow Stars in The Magistrate, The National Theatre, London
February 10, 2026Except of course Cis isn’t advanced for his age: when his mother married Posket, she eased...
Music
Album Review: Andre Williams and The Sadies’ Night & Day
February 10, 2026Andre Williams spits out his philosophy against a background of organs and supporting vocals that evoke...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: True Romance, #43
February 10, 2026This is an old-fashioned boy-meets-girl love story, filtered (perhaps scrambled is a better word) through the...
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Video Games
Tiger Woods Needs to Start Thinking in Portals
February 9, 2026The Portal franchise is a beautiful anomaly of the gaming world - the Coup de Ville...
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Dance
Dance Review: Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
February 9, 2026Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty is an astonishing work. Witty, trashy, sexy and unsettling, it rewrites the...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Parts by Sebastian Faulks
February 9, 2026If we could follow the mortal remains or spiritual resonance of a sport-loving soldier from the...
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Movies
On Being A Movie Geek in the Age of the Television Drama
February 9, 2026We are in the middle of a very peculiar cultural crossroads. For the first time in...
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Books
Book Review: Raised from the Ground: A Novel by José Saramago
February 8, 2026While he has an ear for both the humdrum and the eccentric dissembling pronouncements of the...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Underworld, U.S.A., #42
February 8, 2026Underworld, U.S.A.’s original opening—in which prostitutes joke of starting a union and holding a “stand-up strike”—was...
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Television
Vegas Recap: ‘Paiutes’ (Season 1, Episode 11)
February 8, 2026Savino discovers he has an even bigger problem, when his banker storms in to inform him...
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Movies
The Worst Movies of 2012
February 8, 2026Brett Harrison Davinger and Matt Newlin present their most despised movies of 2012.
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Television
The Office Recap: ‘Lice’ (Season 9, Episode 10)
February 7, 2026As the title “Lice” suggests, the office must contend with lice. Pam’s daughter Cece had lice,...
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Movies & TV
Girls Recap: ‘It’s About Time’ (Season 2, Episode 1)
February 7, 2026The lovably dysfunctional, self-absorbed twenty-somethings of HBO’s Girls have (finally!) returned. Don’t fear, dear watchers —...
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Movies
The Best Movies of 2012
February 7, 2026Brett Harrison Davinger and Dan Fields offer their 10 favorite movies of 2012. Plus some honorable...
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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