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Tim Flannery Discusses Global Warming
November 27, 2025"Getting nations to cooperate is important, but I think a quicker solution will come from what...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Biographer James Connor
November 27, 2025"This means that we are a people who now live in that shadow world of quasi-existence....
Fiction Reviews
Beyond the Balkans – Eric Ambler and the British Espionage Novel, 1936-1940
November 27, 2025Eric Ambler (1909-1998) was one of the foremost architects of espionage fiction as it exists today....
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The Strange World of Quantum Entanglement
November 26, 2025"Entanglement is a strange feature of quantum physics, the science of the very small. It’s possible...
Movies & TV
The Big Country: How the West Finally Won
November 26, 2025It’s not a classic in the sense of Casablanca or Citizen Kane, but it’s a kind...
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Between Alpha and Omega: Some Observations on Poetry and Poetry’s Task in our Time
November 26, 2025We lived heretofore in the multitude of villages scattered world-wide amongst the ruins of the Tower...
Anthropology
Archival Culture(s)
November 26, 2025It is scarcely news that in a vast, pluralistic country like the United States, minorities should...
Art & Design
Art for a New Gilded Age
November 26, 2025Museums are designed – and public museums are mandated – to act as the stewards of...
Art & Design
Architecture and Modernism
November 25, 2025For Le Corbusier, true, great architecture – meaning, architecture motivated by the quest for efficiency –...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Blue State Blues
November 25, 2025The urban African Americans and Hispanics, the Jewish community, the gays and lesbians, the professionals, the...
Writers
Borges: A Poet’s Quest for Simplicity
November 24, 2025Simplicity requires oneness. If you want to be someone, you are two and you are not...
Movies & TV
DVD Review. I, Claudius: The Complete Series 35th Anniversary Edition
November 24, 2025The whip-smart dialogue, as fans of the series well know, forms a giddy counterpoint to an...
Movies
Movie Review: The Five-Year Engagement
November 24, 2025The Five-Year Engagement Directed by Nicholas Stoller Screenplay by Jason Segel, Nicholas Stoller Starring: Jason Segel,...
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Movies & TV
CLR Writer, David Loftus, Recounts His Role as a ‘Reaper’ on NBC’s Grimm
November 24, 2025The director came over between takes and said, “I like what you’re doing, I’m seeing plenty...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Raven
November 24, 2025The Raven is a piece of historical fiction about what happened during Edgar Allan Poe's (John...
Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Openings (Season 2, Episode 6)
November 24, 2025A recap/review of The Killing: Openings (Season 2, Episode 6)
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Dance
Don Quixote, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House, April 27, 2012
November 24, 2025Let the ballet snobs pound sand in the corrida if they find neither rhyme, reason, nor...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Pirates! Band of Misfits
November 23, 2025Meanwhile, the West Indies are buzzing with the imminent Pirate Of The Year Awards. The most...
Music
Album Review: This Machine from The Dandy Warhols
November 23, 2025At times it's hard to escape an identity that a band has established over the years,...
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Movies & TV
NBC’s Fantasy Series Grimm, Set in Portland, Oregon
November 23, 2025For those who haven’t seen the show, Grimm starts from the premise that all the supernatural...
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
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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...
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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...
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
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