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Book Review: Harbor by John Ajvide Lindqvist
September 16, 2025The family takes a trip over the frozen sea to a lighthouse. While there, the 6...
Movies
Movie Review: The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
September 16, 2025Instead of jumping right into centipeding, Six spends the majority of the sequel allowing us to...
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Book Review: Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
September 16, 2025The revealed mystery of “those across the river,” how they came to be and what they...
Movies
Movie Review: Take Shelter
September 16, 2025Jessica Chastain, also terrific in The Tree of Life, turns in another remarkable performance here. As...
Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Lotto (Season 8, Episode 3)
September 16, 2025A recap/review of The Office's Lotto (Season 8, Episode 3)
Television
Terra Nova Recap: Instinct (Season 1, Episode 3)
September 16, 2025A recap/review of Terra Nova's second episode: Instinct
Poetry
The Weekly Listicle: Method In Our Movie Madness
September 14, 2025The practice of blessing mass entertainment with the bard's prose confers a kind of loftiness upon...
Video Games
The Golden(Eye) Rule of Enemy Design!
September 14, 2025Last time the committee was called to order, we touched upon perhaps one of the biggest...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion by Janet Mullany
September 14, 2025At root, the novel seems to rest on a misapprehension: that the world of Jane Austen...
Performing Arts
Dance Review: NYCB, Paul McCartney’s Ocean’s Kingdom
September 14, 2025But as Ocean's Kingdom joins a growing pile of choreographic train wrecks (a drab revival of...
Movies & TV
Doctor Who Recap: ‘The Wedding of River Song’ (Season 32, Episode 13)
September 14, 2025I loved the opening of this episode, with the steam train running through the Gherkin and...
Movies
Movie Review: Machine Gun Preacher
September 14, 2025What do you call a two-hour movie with forty-five minutes of wholesome, inspirational tearjerking and a...
Television
The Weekly Listicle: Celebrates The End of the World
September 14, 2025A look at the best post apocalyptic movies of all time in honor of Take Shelter...
Movies & TV
The Office Recap: The Initiative (Season 8, Episode 2)
September 13, 2025A recap of the second episode of The American Office's Eighth Season called The Incentive
Movies & TV
Terra Nova Recap: Genesis (Season 1, Episodes 1 + 2)
September 13, 2025A recap/review of the first episode of FOX's Terra Nova.
Art
Art Review: de Kooning: A Retrospective, MoMA
September 12, 2025De Kooning exhibited six "Bitch Goddess" paintings when most American men preferred to watch Marilyn Monroe...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris
September 12, 2025Woolf spent much of her life trying to free herself from the grasp of the past,...
Dance
Smuin Ballet Kicks Off Its 2011-2012 Season
September 12, 2025The spotlight for this season opener is the world premiere of Dear Miss Cline by Choreographer-in-Residence...
Books
Book Review: Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
September 12, 2025In a neat reversal of the Reynard myth, the students at a school that molds young...
Movies & TV
Doctor Who Recap: ‘Closing Time’ (Season 32, Episode 12)
September 12, 2025Having left Amy and Rory to indulge in some domestic bliss, we no longer have to...
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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