Movies
Movie Review: Skyfall
February 26, 2026Our latter-day Bond, played to perfection by Daniel Craig, has re-energized the character created by novelist...
Thrillers
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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Movies
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...
Blog-Dance
7 Questions with Choreographer Sean Kelly
February 24, 2026When I first started dancing, I studied at a studio in Marin that taught all styles...
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Movies & TV
Suits Recap: ‘Blind Sided’ (Season 2, Episode 11)
February 24, 2026As Suits reopens its second season on the USA Network, the devious and divisive Daniel Hardman...
Classics
Book Review: The Other by Thomas Tryon
February 24, 2026The summer of 1935 is a hot and languorous one in Pequot Landing, Connecticut. Elms yet...
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Movies & TV
Suits Recap: ‘War’ (Season 2, Episode 16)
February 24, 2026Finally, Mike reveals that that he never went to Harvard. Rachel slaps him across the face,...
Sports
Game of the Week: Stanford vs. Oregon — The View from England
February 24, 2026So that was a touch unexpected. The Ducks, used to clocking up around 55 points per...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: John Keats: A New Life by Nicholas Roe
February 23, 2026Whether one approaches Keats’ life by reading a biography or by the direct study of his...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2
February 23, 2026Here’s where the movie diverges from the book. In Meyer’s version, there is no battle. There...
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Movies & TV
The Office Recap: The Whale (Season 9, Episode 7)
February 22, 2026A recap/review of The Office: The Whale (Season 9, Episode 7)
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Dance
LEVYDance 10th Anniversary: Who’s in Charge of the Smoke and Mirrors and Where’s the Occasional Music?
February 22, 2026Substantial funds were raised and spent several years ago to improve the performance space at ODC...
Television
Revolution Recap: Kashmir (Season 1, Episode 9)
February 22, 2026A recap/review of Revolution- Kashmir (Season 1, Episode 9)
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Movies
Movie Review: Red Dawn
February 22, 2026Unlike the original film, which begins the invasion with an eerie sequence as paratroopers silently float...
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
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Art
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Non-Fiction Reviews
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
June 23, 2026The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
June 27, 2026From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 19, 2026The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
June 30, 2026"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
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...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Einstein in Japan
June 30, 2026The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
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