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...
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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Fiction Reviews
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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Movies
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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Movies & TV
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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Movies & TV
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...
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Fashion
CLR Street Fashion: Kim in Porto Alegre, Brazil
February 7, 2026Inspired by the music industry...
Movies
Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty
February 6, 2026Despite Bret Easton Ellis's claims to the contrary, Bigelow is an interesting filmmaker because of her...
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Movies & TV
The Office Recap: ‘Suit Warehouse’ (Season 9, Episode 11)
February 6, 2026Moreover, it brings back something that has been dreadfully missing over the past few years --...
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Movies
Movie Review: Mama
February 5, 2026Mama is a movie of weight and a certain dark beauty. It is unlikely to change...
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Movies & TV
Vegas Recap: ‘From This Day Forward’ (Season 1, Episode 12)
February 5, 2026As I’ve mentioned before, Ralph Lamb’s character and the police half of the show have been...
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Video Games
Backlog Video Game Review #1: The Walking Dead
February 5, 2026With their licensed tie-in to Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead, Telltale proves once again that worthwhile...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Infernal Affairs, #41
February 5, 2026Martin Scorsese used this movie as the framework for The Departed. And while Infernal Affairs has...
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Movies & TV
Girls Recap: ‘I Get Ideas’ (Season 2, Episode 2)
February 5, 2026In the second episode of the season, Hannah sucks. Even more than usual. She’s petty and...
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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