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Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
May 28, 2025Yet another of his discoveries turns out to be a lost watercolor by one of America’s...
Art
Arizona and the Politics of Mural Painting
May 28, 2025Murals are designed to unite communities, create beauty and celebrate common values. The horrific reaction to...
Movies
Movie Review: The A-Team
May 27, 2025It would be foolish to say that Carnahan reined himself in, since these are some of...
Art
Alice Leora Briggs: Art from Juárez
May 27, 2025While Briggs subject matter is unpleasant, her work has a dark beauty and an immediacy not...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: My Life with Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz
May 27, 2025Charles Schulz (1922-2000) started out simply wanting to draw for a living. He never had any...
Art
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
May 27, 2025In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
Art
Art Review: Object, Image, Collector at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
May 26, 2025It’s the photoetching, a 1974 work called “The Train,” that is really breath-taking. It seems to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union by Robert V. Remini
May 26, 2025In 1850, the best that Clay could do was to coax Southern politicians to agree to...
Biography
Book Review: Unbillable Hours: A True Story by Ian Graham
May 26, 2025It was an appeal on behalf of Mario Rocha, a Los Angeleno of Mexican descent, who...
Movies
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS FILM?: Barry Caillier’s Daredreamer!
May 26, 2025If you've seen Daredreamer, particularly around the time it was first released, I'd love to hear...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Insultingly BAD Movies
May 25, 2025They exist to make money more than tell a story, and are fully satisfied to merely...
Movies
QUIT IT! (A Moviegoer’s Pet Peeves)
May 25, 2025In the last year or so I’ve become almost as comfortable in the local theater as...
Television
Screw the Characters: Why ‘Lost’ Was Always About the Plot
May 25, 2025I’m sorry, writers of ‘Lost,’ but if you didn’t want us to care about the crazy...
Movies
Movie Review: Sex and the City 2
May 25, 2025Abu Dhabi, in case you were unaware, is the “new Middle East” and Dubai is “over.”...
Movies
Movie Review: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
May 25, 2025The adventure really kicks in when Dastan is framed for his father’s murder and goes on...
Art & Design
Art Review: Kurt, at the Seattle Art Museum, Explores Kurt Cobain’s Influence on Contemporary Artists
May 24, 2025Nearby, Jeffry Mitchell’s portrait as Kurt is arguably the hidden gem of the exhibit. Self-Portrait as...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Epic Movies of Epic Epicness
May 24, 2025Aside from questionable casting and probable cheesiness, this week’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
May 24, 2025Lisbeth Salander is broken, maybe beyond repair. Wanted for three murders in Stockholm, she shows up...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Red Dead Redemption
May 24, 2025And yet Red Dead Redemption is still a fantastic gaming experience, beautiful to look at and...
Art & Design
Art Review: Albrecht Dürer: Virtuoso Printmaker at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
May 23, 2025The earlier prints from each series are flatter, the lines more bold and calligraphic, the details...
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
June 23, 2026The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
June 27, 2026From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in...
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
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
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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