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The Weekly Listicle: “On This Very Night…” Spooky Tales for Halloween
June 24, 2025It's almost Halloween, folks! Aren't we supposed to be having fun? Rather than dwell further on...
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Video Game Review: Vanquish
June 23, 2025Events turn to the melodramatic when evil wetsuit-wearing Russians take over America’s 51st state, the mega...
Classics
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
June 23, 2025Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Movies
Movie Review: Paranormal Activity 2
June 23, 2025“Badly acted exposition,” check. “Obnoxious characters,” check. “Inability to create believable tension,” check indeed. It captures...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Scary Movies For The Whole Family!
June 23, 2025The Weekly Listicle presents Scary Movies For The Whole Family. Not kids movies with Halloween themes,...
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The Weekly Listicle: The Most Disturbing Movies We’ve Seen!
June 22, 2025Here at The Fourth Wall, we’re spending the month of October catering to your every scary...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Gauntlgrym: Neverwinter, Book 1 by R. A. Salvatore
June 22, 2025One thing is clear: Salvatore is moving Drizzt ahead toward a new point in his life....
Movies
Movie Review: Red
June 22, 2025Dame Helen Mirren is most renowned for her roles as stuffy British matrons (and the Queen...
Movies
Movie Time Nostalga, Part 3: Raising the Stakes with Raising Arizona
June 22, 2025My appreciation of Raising Arizona is as much sentimental as aesthetic. But don't be fooled. It...
Movies
Movie Review: Secretariat
June 22, 2025It’s a cheery film, brought to life with pomp and circumstance by Randall Wallace in what...
The Fourth Wall
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
June 21, 2025Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
June 21, 2025The game just keeps going and going, yet it never feels padded or in need of...
Biography
Book Review: Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
June 21, 2025Nevertheless, it is a considerable shock to read indictments of Washington in the letters of Patriot...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Fort by Bernard Cornwell
June 21, 2025Bernard Cornwell, who has written a masterful novel about Agincourt, tackles the American Revolution and its...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Stepchildren Of The Horror Masters
June 20, 2025Today we take a different look at the master horror directors. Each of these moviemakers has...
Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
June 20, 2025Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Dead Rising 2
June 20, 2025Any great zombie story has something on its mind other than the now mundane “trial of...
Movies
Movie Review: Let Me In
June 20, 2025As Owen discovers the startling and horrible truth about his neighbors, he and Abby develop a...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Harry Brown
June 20, 2025Pete Townsend once wrote “I hope I die before I get old,” but it’s important to...
Movies
Movie Review: The Social Network
June 19, 2025He brings up his 1600 SAT score, his obsession with Harvard’s final clubs, betrays his jealousy...
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...
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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...
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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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