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Movie Review: Clash of the Titans
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Movie Review: Hot Tub Time Machine
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Art
The Wonderful World of Maira Kalman
May 10, 2025Well, Susan, 2004-05 by Maira Kalman [Image source: How Blog] The intelligent curating at Philadelphia’s Institute...
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The Weekly Listicle: Time Travel At Its Best!
May 10, 2025Since there are relatively few “Hot Tub” movies to recommend, Julia Rhodes and I (William Bibbiani)...
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Museums: Attracting a Younger Crowd
May 10, 2025Brooklyn Museum iPhone Application Museum-goers today are very different than they were one hundred years ago. ...
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Happy Birthday, NC-17!
May 9, 2025The basics of the MPAA’s rating system (from here). Oh, NC-17. You’re like that friend who’s...
Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 3-23-10
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The Great Music Videos #2: “Thriller” (dir. John Landis)
May 9, 2025Jackson as a zombie in “Thriller” William Bibbiani noted in the Great Music Videos #1 post...
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A CLR Interview with The New Year Parade Filmmaker Tom Quinn
May 8, 2025The New Year Parade: A taut, small-scale family drama from independent filmmaker Tom Quinn. Tom Quinn’s...
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Movie Review: Repo Men
May 8, 2025The only way it could be more topical is if there was a subplot about Sandra...
Iran
Iran’s Cultural Heritage Under Threat
May 8, 2025In addition to depriving Iranians of their cultural property, a decision to turn over the artifacts...
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When Film Critics Lose a Bet, Part 1: The Oscar!
May 8, 2025(The Oscar) has a reputation as one of the biggest turkeys in Hollywood history, in large...
Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Weekly Listicle: Dystopian Futures
May 6, 2025The March 19 release Repo Men is about a near-future in which organ transplants are simple,...
Fiction Reviews
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
May 6, 2025A startling achievement in a first novel, the work seems to have already touched a chord...
Fiction Reviews
A Separate Country by Robert Hicks
May 6, 2025A Separate Country tells the story of Confederate General John Bell Hood, who moves to New...
Photography
I Myself Have Seen It: Photography & Kiki Smith at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
May 6, 2025Contemporary sculptor and print maker Kiki Smith has been photographing and exhibiting her work for three...
Art
The Art of Japanese Internment Camps at the Renwick Gallery
May 6, 2025An exhibition at the Renwick Gallery in Washington DC titled The Art of Gaman: Arts and...
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A Case for Warhol’s Jews
May 6, 2025Since its in 1980, Critics have lambasted Warhol’s “Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century”...
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What happened to teen movies?!
May 6, 2025“On Wednesdays we wear pink!” (Mean Girls: a frightfully accurate portrayal of peer pressure and conformity.)...
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,...
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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...
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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...
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
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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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