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Movie Review: The Last Airbender
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Movie Review: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
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Art Review: Late Renoir at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
May 31, 2025In the case of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, some were even put...
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Catching Up With 2010: When in Rome
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The Weekly Listicle: Hilarity FAIL.
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Book Review: Winston’s War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by Max Hastings
May 31, 2025The next two years of the war for Churchill were a harrowing march through what his...
Art
Paul Emmanuel: Transitions: Identity Construction in South Africa
May 31, 2025As Emmanuel watched black and white soldiers go through the same seminal moment of transition, he...
Art
Art Review: Dr. Lakra at the ICA, Boston
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Art Review: A Visual Alphabet: Herbert Bayer’s Anthology Paintings at the Denver Art Museum
May 30, 2025Student and then teacher at the legendary Bauhaus school, Bayer exercised his talents in fields as...
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The Great Music Videos #3: “Blue Song” by Mint Royale (dir. Edgar Wright)
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Heat Wave: Movies that make us feel
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Movie Review: Toy Story 3
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The Weekly Listicle: Ten Sequels We Actually WANT To See!
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Book Review: The Passage by Justin Cronin
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Did Alfred Hitchcock Invent the “That’s What She Said” Joke?
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When Movie Marketing FAILS: Cats & Dogs 2, Knight & Day, Babies and Grown Ups
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Movie Review: Jonah Hex
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The Weekly Listicle: Remakes We Love
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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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Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
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Non-Fiction Reviews
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
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Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
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Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
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Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
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Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
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The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
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Einstein in Japan
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