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True Crime
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Dance
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The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles
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Art
Art Review: John Baldessari: Pure Beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
June 29, 2025There is a big fuss about Pure Beauty, John Baldessari’s retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
June 29, 2025Homans' concluding remarks, cogent and powerfully expressed like the rest of Apollo's Angels, are going to...
Theatre
Theater Review: A Free Man of Color Starring Jeffrey Wright
June 29, 2025Given the grandeur of its lofty aspirations, the play inevitably fails on some levels, like the...
Movies
Movie Review: Tangled
June 29, 2025Tangled isn’t too cool for school, it’s just really cool, and once the film stops apologizing...
Theatre
Theater Review: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Starring Patti LuPone, Sherie Rene Scott
June 29, 2025Patti LuPone, however, does not stumble. In her mesmerizing performance of the show’s best song “Invisible”...
Movies
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
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Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Fun Inc.: Why Gaming Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century by Tom Chatfield
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Nemesis by Philip Roth
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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...
After Image
Vandalism in the Name of the Lord: Kathleen Folden and “The Misadventures of Romantic Cannibals”
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Movies
Movie Review: Unstoppable
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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...
Humor
The Weekly Listicle: Worlds Of Fancy And Other Wondrous Places
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Movies
Movie Review: Morning Glory
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Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
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History
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
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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
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
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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
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Einstein in Japan
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