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Mad Men Recap: “Man with a Plan” and “The Crash” (Season 6, Episodes 7 and 8)
December 24, 2025To Don, every woman is either a mother figure or a whore. If Don isn't in...
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Movies & TV
Revolution Recap: ‘Clue’ (Season 1, Episode 18)
December 23, 2025Season 1 has progressed in such a way that it's like the show is trying to...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Donnie Brasco, #8
December 23, 2025One of the reasons the movie works so well is the interplay between Pacino and Johnny...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: On the Waterfront, #4
December 23, 2025All these years later, On the Waterfront continues to work as a magnificent bit of drama—and...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Goodfellas, #3
December 23, 2025There is no romance here. No looking out for one’s people. No myth of a moral...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Little Caesar, #6
December 23, 2025Enrico Bandello was the prototype for every film gangster who followed. The tight-fitting three-piece suits, the...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 3)
December 23, 2025The most notorious atrocity of the Draft Riots was the burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum,...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Departed, #7
December 22, 2025There are references to Hawthorne, Shakespeare and James Joyce. Conversely, and while we didn’t keep count,...
Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “The Better Half” (Season 6, Episode 9)
December 22, 2025Poor Peggy Olson. She was doing so well, the last time we checked in on her....
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Pulp Fiction, #5
December 21, 2025Part of the joy is not always knowing who the good guys are. Tarantino shot Pulp...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather: Part II, #2
December 21, 2025Al Pacino reprises his role as Michael and offers us an Ivy League Machiavelli. He has...
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Television
Revolution Recap: ‘Children of Men’ (Season 1, Episode 19)
December 21, 2025Thankfully, the show gives another reason why it would be dangerous to return power. Sure, we...
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Video Games
A Throne of Games – Volume 3 – A Storm of “S” Words.
December 21, 2025When last we left the historie of the consoleflict, King Atari had perished in madness and...
Fiction Reviews
The Sad Passions by Veronica Gonzalez-Peña
December 21, 2025The Sad Passions is Veronica Gonzalez- Peña’s second novel after Twin Time: or, How Death Befell...
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Fiction Reviews
Oh, Those Crazy Modern Victorians: Or What the Heck Is Steampunk?
December 20, 2025While there is a sense of pride in having created something so wonderful, there is also...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Watchman, What of the Night?
December 20, 2025The novel as a perpetually-remade form of high style and sophistication is, in our commerce, scarcely...
Literary Themes
How to Write a Successful Literature Review
December 20, 2025In many ways writing a good literature review is like writing any run of the mill...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Persecution of P.G. Wodehouse
December 20, 2025Was P.G.Wodehouse, the legendary master of farce, party to Nazi propaganda during World War II? This...
Writers
A Tribute to Hunter S. Thompson: A World to Fear and Loathe More
December 20, 2025Three books changed my life. George Orwell’s 1984, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Long Day’s Day with James Dickey
December 19, 2025“Ah yes,” he whispered to me, ”I spent one helluva long night wrassling all over the...
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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