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Book Review: Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow
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Movie Review: Paranormal Activity 3
September 21, 2025Paranormal Activity 3 was inevitable. This is the horror franchise that people love to hate, but...
Movies & TV
The Walking Dead Recap: “Bloodletting” (Season 2, Episode 2)
September 21, 2025In its first season, “The Walking Dead” was like a gore-streaked helium balloon that began firmly...
Crime Fiction
Trailer Watch: Sherlock Holmes 2, The Woman In Black, Chronicle
September 21, 2025This week is rife with compelling but problematic new trailers. Compelling but problematic but informative. Without...
Movies & TV
Trailer Report: We Bought a Zoo and War Horse
September 20, 2025The look at the trailers for two wannabe Oscar hopefuls, War Horse and We Bought a...
Theatre
Theater Review: Relatively Speaking
September 20, 2025In Woody Allen’s Honeymoon Motel, young bride Nina Roth (Ari Graynor) enters a gaudy roadside inn...
Movies
Courageous: A Closer Look
September 20, 2025Is Courageous great art? By almost any accepted measure, no. Is it meant to be great...
Movies & TV
Terra Nova Recap: The Runaway (Season 1, Episode 5)
September 20, 2025A recap/review of Terra Nova's fifth episode: The Runaway
Art
Art Review: Charles Dickens at 200, The Morgan Library and Museum
September 19, 2025Dickens’ novels probed the social ills of Victorian England in order to create unforgettable images of...
Music
Music Review: New York Philharmonic, “Alan Gilbert Conducts Bach, Berg, and Brahms”
September 19, 2025Taking the second violin part, Gilbert, who has previously played in the Philharmonic’s chamber music concerts,...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Some Movies Are About Things
September 19, 2025At last, the long-rumored prequel/remake of John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece The Thing infects theaters across the...
Movies
Movie Review: The Thing
September 19, 2025Detractors of Rob Zombie’s Halloween know that the cardinal rule of a classic monster is this:...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
September 19, 2025In this profound and spirited work, Pinker champions the civilizing process that, according to his detailed...
Thrillers
The Walking Dead Season 2 Premiere: Suffer the Little Children
September 18, 2025Officers Friendly and Crazy to the rescue. (Photo credit: Gene Page/AMC) Despite the fact that AMC’s...
Movies & TV
Terra Nova Recap: What Remains (Season 1, Episode 4)
September 18, 2025A recap/review of Terra Nova's fourth episode, What Remains.
Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Garden Party (Season 8, Episode 4)
September 18, 2025A recap/review of Garden Party, The Office's fourth episode of its eight season.
Dance
Dance Review: NYCB, Works by Jerome Robbins
September 18, 2025Lauren Lovette, in particular, is fascinating to watch in this piece: she almost passively lets the...
Movies
Movie Review: The Big Year
September 16, 2025There are no surprises. The payoff of each plot arc is completely predictable. The fun 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
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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...
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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