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Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs by Jeni Stepanek
August 8, 2026He explains it in his journals as “Whatever it is that a person needs or wants,...
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The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
August 7, 2026Even so, to hold The Lacuna in one’s hand, to read it, is to witness and...
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Movie Review: Pirate Radio
August 7, 2026Aside from the lack of a true protagonist, a number of small story arcs fall a...
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My Prison, My Home: One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran by Haleh Esfandiari
August 7, 2026Her jail term of one hundred and five days was the culmination of an eight-month ordeal....
Art
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 7, 2026The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
Thrillers
Under the Dome by Stephen King
August 6, 2026Still, despite the ending, this is King’s best work in years, a richly textured novel of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey
August 6, 2026The 19th century science known as phrenology — which posited that the human skull conforms to...
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Movie Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats
August 6, 2026Imagine a world in which the military trains soldiers not to kill enemies of the state,...
Native American
Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort at The National Museum of the American Indian
August 6, 2026The first piece you see upon entering is Shapeshifter (2000), an enormous, abstracted whale skeleton built...
Fiction Reviews
The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
August 5, 2026She’s developed an enjoyable way of beginning novels in the middle of a story, letting her...
Movies
In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
August 5, 2026Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
Movies
Movie Review: The Maid
August 5, 2026It’s in this last third of the film that Catalina Saavedra’s performance as Raquel carries the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
August 5, 2026The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
Fiction Reviews
Vanessa and Virginia by Susan Sellers
August 5, 2026As a cultural, literary, and historical icon, Virginia Woolf was celebrated by contemporaries and has continued...
Music
Nicole Atkins: Femme Noir
August 4, 2026She’s been called the female Roy Orbison, a psychedelic metalhead who grew up listening to Elvis...
Movies
Movie Review: Amelia
August 4, 2026Furthermore, Nair chooses to play it safe by directing an uninspiring paint-by-numbers biopic complete with voice-overs...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
August 4, 2026The unit of measure is a “Darwin,” so named by famed geneticist J. B. S. Haldane....
Movies
Movie Review: Paranormal Activity
August 4, 2026The film falls short by arranging a regrettably thin layer of spooky occurrences beneath a thicker...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series by Mark Frost
August 4, 2026Baseball’s World Series. 1975. The Cincinnati Reds, manager Sparky Anderson’s Big Red Machine, are up 3...
Fiction Reviews
The Child Thief by Brom
August 3, 2026There are moments of genuine mystery and magic, scenes where we are bedazzled and terrified simultaneously....
Art
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
August 10, 2026Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
Movies
In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
August 5, 2026Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
Art
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 7, 2026The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
Art & Design
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
July 27, 2026Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
Art
Tim Burton at MoMA
August 11, 2026Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
Movies
Movie Review: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
August 8, 2026Comedian Mo’Nique, best known for urban comedies like Phat Girlz and Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, gives...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 3, 2026Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
Art & Design
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
August 1, 2026And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
Fiction Reviews
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
July 31, 2026But, as we see in the terrifying drawings of his radiologist father giving him neck adjustments—“kkrraackk,”...
Movies
Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
August 16, 2026The novel opens with a striking, abrupt proclamation: “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first...
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