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The Weekly Listicle: Heroes Who Suck
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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...
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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...
Biography
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...
Art & Design
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...
Television
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...
Classics
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...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Vanquish
June 23, 2025Events turn to the melodramatic when evil wetsuit-wearing Russians take over America’s 51st state, the mega...
Fiction Reviews
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,...
Movies
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...
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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...
Movies
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
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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
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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
June 19, 2026The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
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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...
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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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