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Revolution Recap: ‘The Love Boat’ (Season 1, Episode 16)
December 28, 2025If there’s one thing Revolution has done wrong, and it’s done so, so many things wrong,...
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The Office Recap: ‘A.A.R.M’ (Season 9, Episode 22)
December 28, 2025“This” is being Assistant to the Regional Manager (Dwight Schrute) at a paper company that, even...
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Boldly Going…: A Look Back At The Original The Original Series Star Trek Movies
December 28, 2025In preparation for Star Trek Into Darkness, I decided to take a look back at the...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 1)
December 28, 2025A sampling of new or recent books on the Civil War suggests that this bygone conflict...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Bonnie and Clyde, #19
December 28, 2025“Young people understood this movie instantly,” director Arthur Penn told the Los Angeles Times. “They saw...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Scarface, #16
December 27, 2025A remake of the 1932 classic of the same name starring Paul Muni, Al Pacino’s Scarface...
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Revolution Recap: ‘The Longest Day’ (Season 1, Episode 17)
December 27, 2025There are a lot of interesting concepts operating within Revolution's borders. Unfortunately, it rarely makes proper...
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Best Books
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 2)
December 27, 2025On a sultry summer afternoon, 150 years ago, a young man named Strong Vincent changed the...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: A Bronx Tale, #18
December 27, 2025A Bronx Tale is more than a wonderful portrait of growing up around the mob in...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Reservoir Dogs, #15
December 27, 2025Reservoir Dogs is an action film without much action. A crime drama in which you never...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: White Heat, #17
December 26, 2025This was film noir, movies where evil not only exists, but flourishes. Cagney’s Cody Jarrett isn’t...
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Movie Review: Star Trek Into Darkness
December 26, 2025By the end, Star Trek Into Darkness ends up feeling too much like a retread of...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Mean Streets, #14
December 25, 2025One of the best things about watching Mean Streets more than 30 years after its debut...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Blind Boys, Berkeley Blue, Phone Hacks and Wozniak
December 25, 2025The earliest phone phreak I’ve been able to identify was a young man who went by...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Léon: The Professional, #13
December 25, 2025He’s a highly efficient—but in many ways naïve—hit man who drinks milk, exercises religiously and seems...
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The Office Recap: Finale (Season 9, Episode 23)
December 25, 2025"Finale" is about bringing them all together for one last hurrah, and it works emotionally and...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Usual Suspects, #9
December 25, 2025The genesis of this complex thriller was a magazine article, or—more accurately—the headline of an article....
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Casino, #10
December 24, 2025In the opening shot of Casino, a man in a salmon-colored sports jacket climbs into his...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Scarface: The Shame of a Nation, #11
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Once Upon a Time in America, #12
December 24, 2025Once Upon a Time in America tells the lifelong tale of a clan of Jewish mobsters....
Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
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Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
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Art
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
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Non-Fiction Reviews
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
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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
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Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Einstein in Japan
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