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AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Non-Fiction Reviews
Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles
May 10, 2026Oh, no—the cry is almost involuntary—not another Beatles book! What more could anyone possibly say? The...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding
May 10, 2026Study of the American founding fathers has become a hothouse industry. The capacity of the American...
Biography
Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward – by Charlyne Berens
May 9, 2026Some less than exhaustive research suggests that this book is a first: a campaign biography published...
Nature
The Essential Grizzly – The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears – by Doug Peacock and Andrea Peacock
May 9, 2026The style of this book is intriguing. Doug has written several short stories, called Portraits, based...
Fiction Reviews
Hannah Coulter – by Wendell Berry
May 8, 2026There was a time, not many decades ago, that most of America’s population labored on family...
Art
The Dawn of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
May 8, 2026The statue is nicknamed “The Lady of Brussels” because its home museum is in Belgium. It...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘The C-Word’ (Season 8, Episode 19)
May 8, 2026That wasn’t as bad as I feared. Wilson’s alive (for now) and it looks like next...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Charley Varrick, #78
May 8, 2026Few filmgoers noticed Charley Varrick when it came out in 1973. After all, The Godfather, that...
Music
Album review: Deuce’s Nine Lives
May 8, 2026...and we have achieved triple threat; misogyny, racism and homophobia. Quite an achievement for a guy...
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Humor
In the Therapist’s Chair: Kingdom Hearts and Minecraft
May 7, 2026What makes video games brutal is often their most basic premise. If you think too long...
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Television
Mad Men Recap: “At the Codfish Ball” (Season 5, Episode 7)
May 7, 2026Sunday’s Mad Men was a bit of a doozie, and I’m late to the ball due...
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Dance
Five Questions with Oregon Ballet Theatre Artistic Director Christopher Stowell
May 7, 2026We have created a lean, but very powerful group of artists with an incredible work ethic...
Games
Video Game Review: Fez
May 7, 2026While not completely original (Paper Mario and Echochrome both used similar mechanics) the concept has never...
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Theatre
Broadway Review: Nice Work If You Can Get It
May 7, 2026Broderick gives a generous performance, turning on his patented man-child charm when called upon, but also...
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Movies & TV
Community Recap: Course Listing Unavailable (Season 3, Episode 18)
May 6, 2026Are they, in fact, in the darkest time line? Even though things haven’t worked out the...
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Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Turf War (Season 8, Episode 23)
May 6, 2026A recap/review of The Office: Turf War (Season 8, Episode 23)
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Movies & TV
Sherlock Recap: ‘A Scandal in Belgravia’
May 5, 2026Sherlock sits humming at the intersection between our sulky obsession with the Victorians, our fascination with...
Movies
Trailer Watch: The Expendables 2
May 5, 2026Whatever you felt about the The Expendables, you are meant to feel ten times over about...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Avengers
May 5, 2026Not to compare actors to superheroes, but this cast could easily have exploded in our faces;...
Music
Album Review: Rufus Wainwright’s Out of the Game
May 5, 2026Underneath the skin of the music there is the pulse of the long car trip, songs...
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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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