Music
Why Buddha Would Go to Indie Rock Concerts
September 5, 2025At my 17th birthday dinner at a place that played live music, the host sat...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Comes From a Different Timeline
September 5, 2025The Cover To Philip K. Dick’s Hugo Award-winning The Man In The High Castle History doesn’t...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Deus Ex Human Revolution
September 5, 2025At the end of the day and the game, the gestalt of Deus Ex: Human Revolution...
Dance
Life After Fringe: Two Dance Companies to Watch
September 5, 2025Pittsburgh’s In The Basement Theater Company offers one of this year’s most erotically charged entries. CHIEN...
Movies & TV
Morning Recap — Doctor Who: Night Terrors
September 5, 2025Taking the episode on its own, it was entertaining enough; it was more like the disconnected...
Movies
No? No! NOO!!!!!: Lucas Screws with Star Wars, And Its Fans, Again
September 5, 2025By now I’m sure that everyone knows that Lucas has, once again, decided to mangle The...
Theatre
The Bobbed-Haired Bandit, New York International Fringe Festival
September 5, 2025Book and lyric writer Anna Marquardt and composer Britt Bonney capture the exuberance of the time...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: From the Mouths of Babes…Kids and the Supernatural
September 4, 2025This weekend’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (which I saw at a film festival last...
Movies
Movie Review: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
September 4, 2025Everything seems right about the setup. In a refreshing change from the norm, Sally is the...
Theatre
The Woman in White, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford
September 4, 2025Collins’ strong suit is suspense tinged with bafflement. When it works, you’re reeling from the last...
Theatre
The Tutor, New York International Fringe Festival
September 4, 2025In the age of equality, is it bad to be sexy? Fun to be bad? Which...
History
Purity and Danger: The Many Lives of the Italian Renaissance
September 3, 2025More importantly, the good-for-you, vitamin-enriched Renaissance we know today is itself a fairly recent, and largely...
Music
The Turn of the Screw at Glyndebourne, Live Streamed via The Guardian
September 3, 2025Glyndebourne: one of the names in the British calendar. Up there with Wimbledon, Henley and other...
Theatre
Anne Boleyn, at Shakespeare’s Globe, London
September 3, 2025Despite the subject matter, and the evident success of the play, the particular style of performance...
Books
Book Review: Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard Miles
September 3, 2025Carthage, however, was not merely conquered by Rome. As the title of Miles' book asserts, Carthage...
Video Games
Video Game Review: El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
September 1, 2025El Shaddai is absolutely gorgeous. Each level of the tower of the Fallen contains unique and...
Theatre
Butley, at the Duchess Theatre, London
September 1, 2025Where West’s incarnation as Detective McNulty was part of a sprawling, panoramic vision of a social...
Movies
Movie Review: Fright Night
September 1, 2025Discerning “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” fans will have noticed Fright Night’s screenplay is written by Marti...
Movies
Movie Review: 30 Minutes or Less
September 1, 2025If 30 Minutes or Less weren’t so bogged down with gratuitous cursing, violence, and boobs, it...
Movies
Movie Review: Conan the Barbarian
September 1, 2025Marcus Nispel's Conan The Barbarian knows what it is, and, as a movie, it will probably...
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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