Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Art
Art Review: Object, Image, Collector at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
September 18, 2026It’s the photoetching, a 1974 work called “The Train,” that is really breath-taking. It seems to...
History
Book Review: At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union by Robert V. Remini
September 18, 2026In 1850, the best that Clay could do was to coax Southern politicians to agree to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Unbillable Hours: A True Story by Ian Graham
September 18, 2026It was an appeal on behalf of Mario Rocha, a Los Angeleno of Mexican descent, who...
Movies
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS FILM?: Barry Caillier’s Daredreamer!
September 18, 2026If you've seen Daredreamer, particularly around the time it was first released, I'd love to hear...
Movies
QUIT IT! (A Moviegoer’s Pet Peeves)
September 18, 2026In the last year or so I’ve become almost as comfortable in the local theater as...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Insultingly BAD Movies
September 17, 2026They exist to make money more than tell a story, and are fully satisfied to merely...
Sex
Movie Review: Sex and the City 2
September 17, 2026Abu Dhabi, in case you were unaware, is the “new Middle East” and Dubai is “over.”...
The Fourth Wall
Screw the Characters: Why ‘Lost’ Was Always About the Plot
September 17, 2026I’m sorry, writers of ‘Lost,’ but if you didn’t want us to care about the crazy...
Art
Art Review: Kurt, at the Seattle Art Museum, Explores Kurt Cobain’s Influence on Contemporary Artists
September 17, 2026Nearby, Jeffry Mitchell’s portrait as Kurt is arguably the hidden gem of the exhibit. Self-Portrait as...
Movies
Movie Review: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
September 16, 2026The adventure really kicks in when Dastan is framed for his father’s murder and goes on...
Thrillers
Book Review: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
September 16, 2026Lisbeth Salander is broken, maybe beyond repair. Wanted for three murders in Stockholm, she shows up...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Epic Movies of Epic Epicness
September 16, 2026Aside from questionable casting and probable cheesiness, this week’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Red Dead Redemption
September 16, 2026And yet Red Dead Redemption is still a fantastic gaming experience, beautiful to look at and...
Architecture
Pritzker Prize goes to Bowery Museum’s Architects
September 16, 2026The 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize was awarded to the Japanese duo, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa....
Art
Art Review: Albrecht Dürer: Virtuoso Printmaker at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
September 15, 2026The earlier prints from each series are flatter, the lines more bold and calligraphic, the details...
Writers
Bret Easton Ellis: Film requires the male gaze, female directors need not apply
September 15, 2026Movieline printed an interview with author Bret Easton Ellis, whose most famous work is probably American...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Other Lives by Peter Bagge
September 15, 2026Overall, there’s a universality to the dilemma that Bagge’s characters face: Who are we? We each...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: The Worst Endings Ever EVER.
September 15, 2026Six seasons have come and passed, but now this Sunday, May 23rd, ‘Lost’ finally comes to...
African American
Book Review: Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz by Randall Sandke
September 14, 2026Sandke offers no critical commentary about this piece of advice that was given Armstrong after he...
Architecture
Recycling Meets Recreation
September 14, 2026Last year Macro-Sea conceived of the Dumpster Pool. The designers constructed what they call a "lo-fi...
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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