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Fiction Reviews
Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry by Leanne Shapton
May 29, 2020Though we hope that love will conquer in the end, we are all too aware that...
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African American
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
May 29, 2020When confronted with Cotton in a police lineup, Thompson had nary a shred of doubt that...
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Art
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
May 29, 20202009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
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Art
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
May 28, 2020In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
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Archeology
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard
May 28, 2020Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is...
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Crime Fiction
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
May 28, 2020There are flashes of wit – the description of the morgue as a “deconstruction site”, for...
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Fiction Reviews
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
May 28, 2020Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
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Art
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
May 28, 2020Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
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China
Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization by Alex Perry
May 27, 2020Perry describes a world without a middle class, a world in which, according to 2006 statistics,...
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African American
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
May 27, 2020Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
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Movies
Why Clash of the Titans might be “The Worst Movie Ever Made”
April 5, 2010Is Clash of the Titans one of the worst movies ever made? William Bibbiani makes an...
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Movies
Kick-Ass and the Hit-Girl debacle
April 19, 2010Chloe Grace Moretz as Hit-Girl in last weekend’s Kick-Ass In my review for Kick-Ass, I only...
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Horror
Family Values
April 28, 2020Their glossy and frequently rather smug “postmodernism”, which refuses to acknowledge any authority other than previous...
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Gay and Lesbian
Happy Birthday, NC-17!
March 29, 2010The basics of the MPAA’s rating system (from here). Oh, NC-17. You’re like that friend who’s...
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Biography
Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
April 30, 2020The universe appears to have cheated Rupert Everett. By rights, he belongs to the Edwardian age,...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Charley Varrick, #78
April 20, 2020Few filmgoers noticed Charley Varrick when it came out in 1973. After all, The Godfather, that...
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Movies & TV
Suits Recap: ‘War’ (Season 2, Episode 16)
April 17, 2020Finally, Mike reveals that that he never went to Harvard. Rachel slaps him across the face,...
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Architecture
Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + The Architecture of Flight, Denver Art Museum
April 19, 2020But if there’s one form of architecture that has come to embody our society’s conflicted relationship...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: King of New York, #77
April 20, 2020Christopher Walken plays—as only Walken can—Frank White, a drug dealer whose release from prison sets the...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “At the Codfish Ball” (Season 5, Episode 7)
April 20, 2020Sunday’s Mad Men was a bit of a doozie, and I’m late to the ball due...
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