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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Winston’s War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by Max Hastings
September 23, 2026The next two years of the war for Churchill were a harrowing march through what his...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Hilarity FAIL.
September 23, 2026Rock, Spade, James, Schneider, and Sandler: A veritable explosion of funny. Or not? For every Superbad,...
Art
Art Review: Dr. Lakra at the ICA, Boston
September 23, 2026A quartet of anatomical drawings from Munich, printed perhaps a hundred years ago, are especially lovely....
Art
Paul Emmanuel: Transitions: Identity Construction in South Africa
September 23, 2026As Emmanuel watched black and white soldiers go through the same seminal moment of transition, he...
Art & Design
Art Review: A Visual Alphabet: Herbert Bayer’s Anthology Paintings at the Denver Art Museum
September 23, 2026Student and then teacher at the legendary Bauhaus school, Bayer exercised his talents in fields as...
Movies
Heat Wave: Movies that make us feel
September 23, 2026Dreamy, steamy summertime: Kirsten Dunst in The Virgin Suicides. I’ve no idea how the rest of...
Movies
The Great Music Videos #3: “Blue Song” by Mint Royale (dir. Edgar Wright)
September 22, 2026Fielding doesn’t have a watch… “Not that I read too good,” his defense… and asks for...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Ten Sequels We Actually WANT To See!
September 22, 2026Any sequel that gets us thinking about our lives, loves and futures is already a good...
Movies
Movie Review: Toy Story 3
September 22, 2026The toys have to employ numerous Rube Goldberg-style methods of escape—one imagines that board meetings with...
Movies
Did Alfred Hitchcock Invent the “That’s What She Said” Joke?
September 22, 2026In this clip, poor (yet fiercely adorable) Anny Ondra confesses that she "cannot speak well" while...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Passage by Justin Cronin
September 21, 2026Justin Cronin has written an epic here. Like Stephen King’s The Stand and Robert McCammon’s Swan...
Movies
Movie Review: Jonah Hex
September 21, 2026Any audience member unlucky enough to find themselves in a theater showing Jonah Hex will soon...
Movies
When Movie Marketing FAILS: Cats & Dogs 2, Knight & Day, Babies and Grown Ups
September 21, 2026You could not pay me to see Babies. Well, strike that, you could pay me, but...
Art
Arizona and the Politics of Mural Painting
September 21, 2026Murals are designed to unite communities, create beauty and celebrate common values. The horrific reaction to...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Remakes We Love
September 18, 2026Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan in June 11’s remake of The Karate Kid. This week’s release...
Art
Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
September 18, 2026Yet another of his discoveries turns out to be a lost watercolor by one of America’s...
Art
Alice Leora Briggs: Art from Juárez
September 18, 2026While Briggs subject matter is unpleasant, her work has a dark beauty and an immediacy not...
Movies
Movie Review: The A-Team
September 18, 2026It would be foolish to say that Carnahan reined himself in, since these are some of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: My Life with Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz
September 18, 2026Charles Schulz (1922-2000) started out simply wanting to draw for a living. He never had any...
Art & Design
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
September 18, 2026In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Percy Jackson The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
September 25, 2026For many years now Chris Columbus and I have had an understanding: He can suck as...
Movies
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
October 16, 2026Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
October 5, 2026Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
After Image
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
September 27, 2026How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 14, 2026Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
October 11, 2026The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
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