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The 10 Best Movies of the Decade (2000-2009)
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The Ghost King: Transitions III by R. A. Salvatore
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Movie Review: Nine
April 19, 2025Marshall apparently strove for the early 60s New Wave Cinema feel, which relied heavily on shaky...
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Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
April 19, 2025What’s remarkable about her is that she shares her story with the class simply, with a...
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Movie Review: The Princess and the Frog
April 19, 2025Cinderella and Snow White are famously hardworking Disney princesses, but they were enslaved as a punishment...
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Movie Review: Avatar
April 18, 2025The story and script fail to create multifaceted characters, sticking instead to the inherent malevolence of...
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The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson
April 18, 2025In some respects, the Thirty Years War resembles the Great War of 1914-1918. Political friction in...
History
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
April 18, 2025James Bradley doesn't like Theodore Roosevelt. Let's get that clear from the get-go. Nor does he...
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Movie Review: A Single Man
April 18, 2025Based on Christopher Isherwood’s novel, the film is set in the 1960s and takes place over...
Fiction Reviews
Matchless by Gregory Maguire
April 17, 2025Matchless was originally composed by Maguire for the radio, and the story retains a sense of...
Art
Tim Burton at MoMA
April 17, 2025Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Great Dinosaur Discoveries by Darren Naish
April 17, 2025Naish states that “most dinosaur books look at current views on dinosaurs and briefly recap the...
Fiction Reviews
Flesh and Fire: Book One of the Vineart War by Laura Anne Gilman
April 17, 2025The first clue that Gilman is not going to zing this story along with Tom Clancy...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Churchill by Paul Johnson
April 16, 2025And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...
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Movie Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
April 16, 2025Fantastic Mr. Fox is a pleasant return to classic stop-motion animation, a technique little used anymore....
Art & Design
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
April 15, 2025Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
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Movie Review: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
April 15, 2025Robin Wright plays Pippa, a beautiful, pastel-clad homemaker nearing her 50s. As the movie opens, her...
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Movie Review: Me and Orson Welles
April 15, 2025Based on the novel by Richard Kaplow, Welles stars Efron as Richard Samuels, a student and...
Fiction Reviews
Love and Summer by William Trevor
April 15, 2025Why is it that summer can never last forever, especially when we want it to? The...
Fiction Reviews
No Man’s Dog: A Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mystery – by Jon A. Jackson
May 15, 2026In No Man’s Dog Jon Jackson weaves a curious juxtaposition between his long-time hero “Fang” Mulheisen,...
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House Recap: ‘Post Mortem’ (Season 8, Episode 20)
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House Recap: ‘The C-Word’ (Season 8, Episode 19)
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House Recap: ‘Holding On’ (Season 8, Episode 21)
May 1, 2026Sometimes the worst thing about being a pessimist is how often you’re right. I would have...
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The Killing Recap: Sayonara, Hiawatha (Season 2, Episode 9)
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The Killing Recap: Keylela (Season 2, Episode 7)
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The Office Recap: Free Family Portrait Studio (Season 8, Episode 24)
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The KillingRecap: Off The Reservation (Season 2, Episode 8)
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Mad Men Recap: “At the Codfish Ball” (Season 5, Episode 7)
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