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The Weekly Listicle: Thanksgiving Dinner Edition!
June 29, 2025In this edition of The Weekly Listicle, we take a moment to be thankful for our...
Art & Design
Art Review: Alessi: Ethical and Radical at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
June 28, 2025The Tea and Coffee Piazza sets, produced in limited editions of ninety-nine, with three artist’s proofs,...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
June 28, 2025Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Fun Inc.: Why Gaming Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century by Tom Chatfield
June 28, 2025One element of the gaming industry that will surprise some readers is the billions of dollars...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Nemesis by Philip Roth
June 28, 2025Weequahic has been particularly hard-hit by the summer’s polio epidemic. Bucky, stuck supervising his school playground’s...
Movies
Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
June 27, 2025With the Potter books, J.K. Rowling fashioned one of the most intricately detailed fantasy lands in...
Art
Vandalism in the Name of the Lord: Kathleen Folden and “The Misadventures of Romantic Cannibals”
June 27, 2025On October 6, 2010, Kathleen Folden, identified in the media as a 56-year-old truck driver from...
Movies
Movie Review: Unstoppable
June 27, 2025The story is just substantial enough to tie all the screeching, sparking train chases together. We...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: A Science Ficsticle
June 27, 2025Color me unimpressed based on the trailers for Skyline. This week’s big release Skyline looks…well, it...
Mythology
The Weekly Listicle: Worlds Of Fancy And Other Wondrous Places
June 26, 2025A cleverly rendered fantasy world has the power to make us believe astounding things, and to...
Movies
Movie Review: Morning Glory
June 26, 2025Morning Glory is a film about morning people. I hate morning people. They’re chipper in the...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Heroes Who Suck
June 26, 2025Heroes don’t HAVE to be boring stand-ins for the audience (I’m looking at you, everyone who...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
June 26, 2025Born nearly five hundred years ago, Montaigne was one of the last great thinkers of the...
Classics
Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 4: We Are All Children Of Paradise
June 25, 2025A movie can do a lot of things to an audience. It may move them, amuse...
Art
Christo in Colorado
June 25, 2025"Over the River" would consist of 5.9 miles of silver fabric draped like an intermittent canopy...
Movies
Movie Review: 127 Hours
June 25, 2025It’s these moments that comprise the film’s greater theme, that in his final (127) hours even...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me by Jeff Dunham
June 25, 2025Jeff Dunham’s YouTube videos have been seen over 400 million times, his comedy DVDs have sold...
Italy
Art Review: Michelangelo Pistoletto Exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
June 24, 2025Pistoletto first gained prominence in the world of art in the early 1960's with his Quadri...
Horror
TV Review: AMC’s “The Walking Dead” Shambles onto the Small Screen
June 24, 2025Last night, half of zombie aficionados across the world tuned in to Frank Darabont’s new zombie...
Movies
Movie Review: Saw 3D
June 24, 2025People who have survived horrific ordeals at the hands of others do not invariably gain a...
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
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
June 9, 2026Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
Fiction Reviews
William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
June 7, 2026"The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much...
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
May 22, 2026What The Buddha Taught accurately describes itself as a reliable introduction to Buddhism. As a religion...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
May 23, 2026In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...
Fiction Reviews
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
Non-Fiction Reviews
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
June 7, 2026I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
June 7, 2026"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
June 3, 2026In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
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