Psychology
AMERICA’S MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS: TREATING THE MENTALLY ILL AS CRIMINALS
January 19, 2026AMERICA’S MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS: TREATING THE MENTALLY ILL AS CRIMINALS Most recently, Pete Earley wrote for...
Politics
FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY FOR HONG KONG, NOT VIOLENCE
January 19, 2026FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY FOR HONG KONG, NOT VIOLENCE David Y. F. Ho What is happening in...
Movies
Movie Review: Oz the Great and Powerful
January 19, 2026But, where the 1939 movie was an unbelievably forward-thinking work of art that inspired filmmakers for...
Books
Book review – Judy Battalion’s Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos
January 19, 2026Review of BATTALION, JUDY. Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s...
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Politics
TINY HONG KONG DWARFED BY TWO SUPERPOWERS: WE WANT FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY, NOT VIOLENCE
January 18, 2026TINY HONG KONG DWARFED BY TWO SUPERPOWERS: WE WANT FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY, NOT VIOLENCE David Y....
Movies & TV
Community Recaps: ‘Alternative History…’ and ‘Cooperative Escapism…’ (Season 4, Episodes 4 and 5)
January 18, 2026Even before the season began, the show gained a reputation that would be hard to shake....
Books
BOOK REVIEW: THE PLAQUE: THIS IS OUR COUNTRY, TOO
January 18, 2026The book begins in the present time, but this is a story that goes back more...
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Art
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
January 17, 2026The Pre-Raphaelites shared several treasured ideals, but their painting styles varied greatly. The two transcendent themes,...
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Movies
SXSW Film Festival Day 1: Evil Dead’s a Winner
January 17, 2026The real treat of the night was director Fede Alvarez' remake of the classic B horror...
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Movies
SXSW Film Festival Day 2: It’s Whedon’s World
January 17, 2026If South By Southwest has taught us anything, it's that this is Joss Whedon's world and...
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Movies & TV
The Walking Dead Recap: “Arrow on the Doorpost” (Season 3, Episode 13)
January 17, 2026We already know how the Governor functions, and we don’t need more evidence of his shortcomings...
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Dance
San Francisco Ballet Presents The Rite of Spring, Beaux and Guide To Strange Places
January 17, 2026At the first sensual strains of a bassoon made to sound like an archaic oboe in...
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Movies
SXSW Film Festival Day 3: Is The MPAA All Bad?
January 16, 2026I was able to attend my first panel discussion on my third day at SXSW. Cleverly...
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Movies & TV
The Office Recap: ‘The Farm’ (Season 9, Episode 17)
January 16, 2026Tonight is the episode of The Office that I've been waiting for: “The Farm.” This is...
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Movies & TV
Early Review: Don Jon
January 15, 2026Don Jon is Jon Martello (Gordon-Levitt), a New Jersey meathead who only cares about a few...
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Movies
SXSW Film Festival Day 5: Guns, Ghosts and Psychos
January 15, 2026As a sign of how important SXSW has become across a variety of media, A&E premiered...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: American Gangster, #33
January 15, 2026Based loosely on the life and times of Harlem drug kingpin Frank Lucas, American Gangster was...
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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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