Art
Into the Void: The Bicoastal Legacy of Weldon Kees
October 23, 2025This is very different stuff than the angst of later confessional poets such as Lowell and...
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Oscars 2012: Slighted Soundtracks And Fantasy Scores
October 21, 2025Acting, directing, and writing awards are the most popular targets for discussion, but there were more...
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Theatre
Hamlet, starring Michael Sheen at the Young Vic, London
October 21, 2025The psychiatric setting also forces – or helps – the production into a particular vision of...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: El Mariachi, #92
October 21, 2025But there’s a lot of energy and creativity in El Mariachi. Rodriguez has gone on to...
Video Games
Video Game Review: AMY
October 21, 2025No, what truly hurts is that AMY squanders more potential than a philosophy student. Especially to...
Movies
The Mid-Weekly Listicle: Oscar Nominations 2012
October 21, 2025Our thoughts on the Oscar nominations
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Movie Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
October 21, 2025But when you wear your heart on your sleeve, you risk the audience recognizing that it's...
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Dance
San Francisco Ballet’s 2012 Gala Performance
October 21, 2025A gala performance such as this, kicking off San Francisco Ballet’s 2012 season, is inevitably programmed...
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Movies & TV
Alcatraz Recap: Kit Nelson (Season 1, Episode 3)
October 19, 2025A recap/review of Alcatraz- Season 1, Episode 3: Kit Nelson
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Better Half’ (Season 8, Episode 9)
October 19, 2025So, here we are, back at Princeton-Plainsboro. House still has an ankle monitor, Dr. Chi Park...
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Movies
Movie Review: Haywire
October 19, 2025Having already dominated the world of female mixed martial arts (MMA), Carano easily assumes the role...
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Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Pool Party (Season 8, Episode 12)
October 19, 2025A recap/review of The Office: Pool Party (Season 8, Episode 12)
Biography
Book Review: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
October 19, 2025George Frost Kennan was one of the most influential of all American diplomats, as well as...
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Video Games
Dark Souls VS Skyrim – Part 4 – Splinter of the Mind’s AI
October 19, 2025Climb On Up and Talk With Me, in The Dialogue Tree! First things first. Though this...
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Movies & TV
Alcatraz Recap: Pilot and Ernest Cobb (Season 1, Episodes 1 and 2)
October 19, 2025A recap/review of FOX's new series Alcatraz and its first two episodes, Pilot and Ernest Cobb
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Year of the Dragon, #93
October 18, 2025Somewhere in the middle of this overwrought and overwritten gangland shoot-’em-up, there is a decent story....
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: New Jack City, #94
October 18, 2025A year after playing the righteous cop out to rid the city of the despicable drug...
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Movies & TV
The Weekly Listicle: Shameless Oscar Bait
October 17, 2025If Oscar bait works on you, then you'll treasure the film all your life and hate...
Movies
The Best And Worst Movies Of 2011
October 17, 2025A look back at the best and worst movies of 2011 from Brett Davinger and Dan...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño
October 17, 2025In 2008 Roberto Bolaño’s 900-page epic 2666 was published. Appearing out of relative obscurity, Bolaño’s novel...
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...
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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
June 30, 2026The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
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