Movies & TV
Louie: Television’s Brilliant-est Comedy
August 16, 2025Louis CK as Louie. This Thursday, Louis CK returns to television with the second season of...
Games
Video Game Review: Duke Nukem Forever
August 16, 2025No, wait I was right the first time: Shame on you, Duke Nukem development teams! You...
Theatre
Theater Review: Spider-man: Turn off the Dark
August 16, 2025Despite the fact that the producers of this spectacle have been changing their minds for months...
Music
James Blake in Chicago: Sold-Out and Silent
August 16, 2025I was late to the must-attend show in Chicago of 2011…and I’m better for it....
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Green Lantern
August 15, 2025This sequence is the best in the entire film. There’s something very 1950s sci-fi serial about...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: An Obit For Print Journalism
August 15, 2025CALIFORNIA LITERARY REVIEW, Internet- Print journalism is dying. Well, it’s been dying for years if we’re...
Blog-Video Games
The Guggenheim Effect on Gaming
August 15, 2025During the grand Marvel comics crossover event of 2006 – Civil War – Wolverine, the clawed...
Movies
Movie Review: Super 8
August 15, 2025Super 8 is quality filmmaking. This is what a PG-13 summer blockbuster looks like. For those...
Books
Book Review: Mightier Than The Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America by David S. Reynolds
August 14, 2025The escalating one-upmanship led to some truly bizarre innovations, such as casting famous boxers in the...
Movies
Movie Review: The Troll Hunter
August 14, 2025The idea of hunting mythical trolls with the technological advantages of modern storm chasing and large...
Television
AMC’s Unfortunate Killing
August 14, 2025As The Killing starts its final three episodes next week without a renewal (or cancellation) notice,...
Art
Collab: Four Decades of Giving Modern and Contemporary Design, Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 14, 2025Put them together as an integrated unit and you have a masterpiece. And in doing so,...
Music
You Can Never Leave: L.A. Burnout Mixes
August 13, 2025What do you do when you get tired of the place you live in? When you...
Movies
Day Late, Dollar Short, Solid Gold: “Dear Twilight…”
August 13, 2025Somewhere in the Twilight cutting room, did the thought never stir that they could drag untold...
Movies
Movie Review: X-Men: First Class
August 13, 2025In the world of the mainstream superhero movie, X-Men: First Class shares a place alongside the...
Video Games
Video Game Review: L.A. Noire
August 13, 2025You step into shoes of Cole Phelps (ably portrayed by Mad Men’s Aaron Staton), a veteran...
Art
Art Review: Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
August 12, 2025The pieces presented in this forty-year retrospective are bright and smooth, often dauntingly large, and composed...
Books
Book Review: Bird Cloud by Annie Proulx
August 12, 2025Place, in literature, is often the most complex of characters, boasting variable backdrops with tones and...
Nature
I Am NOT An Animal! (But I Play One In The Movies)
August 12, 2025Putting animal antics into movies is a perennially popular way to cobble up a goofball family...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doc by Mary Doria Russell
August 12, 2025It is the daily struggle of life that blights the lives of Russell’s protagonists. Ill-health and...
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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