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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: M, #45
February 13, 2026A child murderer is terrorizing the city. The police hunt is intense, but fruitless. So the...
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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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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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100 Greatest Gangster Films
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
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...
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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...
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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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Movies
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
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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