Art
Art Review: Robert Adams: The Place We Live, Denver Art Museum
September 27, 2025The photographs in the retrospective are animated by the yearning for a sense of place, of...
Theatre
Theater Review: Chinglish
September 27, 2025Only whipsmart playwright David Henry Hwang could have written Chinglish, the new biting comedy of manners...
Thrillers
The Walking Dead Recap: Cherokee Rose (Season 2, Episode 4)
September 27, 2025Three long episodes ago, Carl got shot and Sophia went missing. It’s only now, a third...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
September 26, 2025The happiness was not to last. More Scrooge than Bob Cratchit in some respects, he was...
Mystery
Television Review: Page Eight on PBS
September 26, 2025British spies these days – the most interesting ones at any rate – are weary, compromised...
Art
Art Review: Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O’Keeffe, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
September 26, 2025Beginning with paintings, drawings and a limited number of sculptures by such “wild men” as Matisse,...
Movies
Music Review: New York Philharmonic, “John Williams: A Night at the Movies”
September 26, 2025Judging by the audience’s response, the final item listed on the program was what many had...
Movies
Movie Review: A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
September 23, 2025Unlike a lot of films that co-opt 3D solely for financial gain, VHK3C understands that paying...
Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Doomsday (Season 8, Episode 6)
September 23, 2025A recap/review of Doomsday, The Office's Season 8 Episode 6
Books
Book Review: Mule: A Novel of Moving Weight by Tony D’Souza
September 23, 2025After a happy, if lean, year spent in a tiny mountain cabin, struggling to get their...
Movies & TV
Terra Nova Recap: Bylaw (Season 1, Episode 5)
September 23, 2025A recap/review of Terra Nova's fifth episode- Bylaw
Dance
Review: Fall for Dance
September 23, 2025Mark Morris Dance Group in All Fours. Photo by Stephanie Berger. The appeal of New York...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Batman Arkham City
September 23, 2025With all these issues aired though, Batman Arkham City can still be summarily broken down to...
Movies & TV
The Walking DeadRecap: Save the Last One (Season 2, Episode 3)
September 23, 2025The opening of last night’s episode of “The Walking Dead” fed us a familiar trope. Travis...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
September 23, 2025David Abulafia’s new book about the Mediterranean Sea, The Great Sea, has everything a major work...
Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Spooked (Season 8, Episode 5)
September 23, 2025The recap of the fifth episode of the eighth season of The Office entitled Spooked
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Blue Nights by Joan Didion
September 23, 2025We learn that Quintana Roo was adopted, a beautiful precocious girl with hair “bleached by the...
Books
Book Review: Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream and Five Acres in Maine by Lou Ureneck
September 22, 2025In September 2007, Lou Ureneck, a 56-year-old journalism professor at Boston University, was hospitalized for atrial...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Is Inspired by Shakespeare
September 22, 2025The weekly listicle looks at movies inspired by Shakespeare while not being based on Shakespeare.
Movies
Movie Review: The Rum Diary
September 22, 2025The Rum Diary stars Johnny Depp as Paul Kemp, a struggling novelist at the end of...
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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