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Community Recap: ‘Basic Human Anatomy’ (Season 4, Episode 11)
January 2, 2026Trying to recapture the “outside the box” antics that made Community so beloved in the earlier...
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Revolution Recap: ‘Home’ (Season 1, Episode 15)
January 2, 2026Since the start of this show, Aaron has always been the most problematic character. While Tracy...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
January 1, 2026Like its monsters, Red Moon is an impressive hybrid—a speculative novel about fairy tale horrors, a...
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Mad Men Recap: “The Flood” (Season 6, Episode 5)
January 1, 2026A tragedy truly does cause one to reach out – but the stupidity of this move...
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CLR Street Fashion: Vivian and Nagehan in London
January 1, 2026Fashionable friends...
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Book Review: The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
January 1, 2026The title The Book of My Lives is apt: rather than presenting a seamless memoir, Hemon...
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Dance
San Francisco Ballet Presents Criss-Cross, Francesca da Rimini and Symphony in Three Movements
January 1, 2026Vilanoba leads Zahorian in a promenade on bent knee. They exchange coy glances, and one surmises...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Get Shorty, #26
December 31, 2025One year after reviving his career in Pulp Fiction, John Travolta gracefully slipped back into the...
Short Stories
Book Review: Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
December 31, 2025An enterprising Japanese capitalist, presumably in conjunction with the state, recruits women from all over the...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Road to Perdition, #25
December 31, 2025Road to Perdition, a period piece about one branch of the Chicago crime family in the...
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Theatre
Broadway Review: Orphans
December 30, 2025In the early 1980’s, Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater and others with a similar aesthetic, gave American theater...
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The Office Recap: ‘Livin’ The Dream’ (Season 9, Episode 21)
December 30, 2025One of my favorite aspects of The Office (both incarnations) is that we are watching sad...
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Community Recap: ‘Heroic Origins’ (Season 4, Episode 12)
December 30, 2025According to Abed’s Crazy Quilt of Destiny, the study group members have all crossed paths before,...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Sexy Beast, #24
December 30, 2025Sir Ben Kingsley becomes the ruthless Logan in Sexy Beast, and he’s 90 percent of the...
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Television
Mad Men Recap: “For Immediate Release” (Season 6, Episode 6)
December 29, 2025Pete Campbell, a vindictive child, tells his wife about her father. He sits Trudy down at...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Gangs of New York, #22
December 29, 2025Before there was John Gotti, before Carlo Gambino, before Lucky Luciano, there was Bill “the Butcher”...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Public Enemy, #23
December 29, 2025Cagney, along with Edward G. Robinson, Paul Muni and, later, Humphrey Bogart, invented the film gangster....
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Carlito’s Way, #20
December 29, 2025Brian De Palma was worried about doing another Hispanic drug kingpin movie after Scarface. But the...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Pope of Greenwich Village, #21
December 28, 2025To appreciate just how well director Stuart Rosenberg and writer Vincent Patrick captured wiseguy street corner...
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...
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Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
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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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Einstein in Japan
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