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Community Recap: ‘Paranormal Parentage’ (Season 4, Episode 2)
January 27, 2026Previous episodes like “Epidemiology” and “Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps” have lampooned genre films and...
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The Office Recap: ‘Moving On’ (Season 9, Episodes 16)
January 27, 2026If [Pam] chooses the home of Dunder Mifflin, it will appear like settling and provide a...
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Suits Recap: ‘Normandy’ (Season 2, Episode 15)
January 26, 2026Harvey realizes that there is evidence that the company accused of discriminating against female employees promoted...
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Movie Review: Beautiful Creatures
January 26, 2026Scripted and paced with impressive skill and thoughtfulness, this movie manages to be witty, racy, and...
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CLR Street Fashion: Lewis and Joe in London
January 26, 2026Bundled-up in Bricklane...
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Video Game Review: DmC: Devil May Cry
January 26, 2026For in this remixed rebirth of DMC, Dante’s brash attitude is retained, but it’s now speckled...
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Dance
Dance Review: Hamburg Ballet’s Nijinsky
January 26, 2026Moments of stillness offer the only pauses in the unrelenting choreography that Neumeier devotes to telling...
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Dance
Diablo Ballet Crowdsources Ideas for a New Ballet
January 25, 2026"My biggest surprise, though, has been the level of creativity. People are really thinking out of...
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Music
Album Review: Tegan and Sara’s Heartthrob
January 25, 2026Heartthrob is deeply wounded and most of it is sad. Its emotional palette is reds and...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid
January 25, 2026Through the invocation of epic prose forms and literary allusion, Kincaid elevates the nuclear family drama...
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CLR Street Fashion: James, London Fashion Week
January 24, 2026Spotted at London's Fashion Week...
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Guessing the Winners: Oscars 2013
January 24, 2026Julia Rhodes, Brett Harrison Davinger, and Dan Fields predict the winners of 2013's Oscars from this...
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Dance
San Francisco Ballet Offers Suite en blanc, Borderlands and In the Night
January 24, 2026Suite en blanc is a work plucked out of the archival past, cut and pasted onto...
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Movies
Movie Review: Dark Skies
January 23, 2026In the suburbs, there’s a feeling of camaraderie. If you need a hand fixing the minivan’s...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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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