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Movie Review: Paranormal Activity
August 4, 2026The film falls short by arranging a regrettably thin layer of spooky occurrences beneath a thicker...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series by Mark Frost
August 4, 2026Baseball’s World Series. 1975. The Cincinnati Reds, manager Sparky Anderson’s Big Red Machine, are up 3...
Fiction Reviews
The Child Thief by Brom
August 3, 2026There are moments of genuine mystery and magic, scenes where we are bedazzled and terrified simultaneously....
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Movie Review: Where the Wild Things Are
August 3, 2026Although studios balked at the film’s maturity, believing it might be too scary for children, it...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex
August 3, 2026And those names: JenniferBlowdryer, Sinnamon Love. Sebastian Horsely, a male prostitute, of course. Horsely advocates the...
Movies
Movie Review: Zombieland
August 3, 2026Zombieland elicits comparison to both the Brit “romzomcom” (romantic zombie comedy) and Dawn of the Dead...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 3, 2026Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
Fiction Reviews
The Bigness of the World by Lori Ostlund
August 2, 2026The Bigness of the World, Ostlund's first collection of short stories, was good enough for the...
Fiction Reviews
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
August 2, 2026Mawer’s The Glass Room is a genuine intellectual achievement—a breath-taking story of love and its loss,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
With Hitler to the End: The Memoir of Hitler’s Valet by Heinz Linge
August 2, 2026Unfortunately the book, while delivering a few marginal insights into Hitler’s character, motivations and global strategies,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
August 2, 2026It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
Art & Design
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
August 1, 2026And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
August 1, 2026Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T. R. Reid
August 1, 2026In this great country, for all its goodness, and for all the excellence of the medical...
Movies
Movie Review: The Informant!
August 1, 2026Perhaps the most ingenious part of Whitacre’s affect (and the film) is his stream-of-consciousness inner monologue....
Non-Fiction Reviews
Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
July 31, 2026Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American. Karl Marx contributed almost...
Fiction Reviews
The Twelve by William Gladstone
July 31, 2026This novel follows the exploits of intellectual and spiritual wunderkind Max Doff who, even as an...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks by Ethan Gilsdorf
July 31, 2026The Otherkin Resource Center (ORC) exists for people who don’t believe they are human. Elves, vampires,...
Fiction Reviews
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
July 31, 2026But, as we see in the terrifying drawings of his radiologist father giving him neck adjustments—“kkrraackk,”...
Movies
Movie Review: 9
July 30, 2026The film is truly gorgeous to behold. Starz Animation has officially given Pixar a run for...
Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
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Movies
Happy Birthday, NC-17!
September 1, 2026The basics of the MPAA’s rating system (from here). Oh, NC-17. You’re like that friend who’s...
Movies
Why Clash of the Titans might be “The Worst Movie Ever Made”
September 4, 2026Is Clash of the Titans one of the worst movies ever made? William Bibbiani makes an...
Music
The Great Music Videos #2: “Thriller” (dir. John Landis)
August 31, 2026Jackson as a zombie in “Thriller” William Bibbiani noted in the Great Music Videos #1 post...
After Image
How to Get Your Work in the Louvre? Hang it up Yourself!
September 9, 2026Ironically, while Mr. Guérineau has indicated a desire to infuse France’s museums with fresh blood and...
Art
Running Fence: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Masterpiece Revisited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
September 7, 2026While one might be tempted to attribute the project's failure to grandiose ambition, the success of...
Art
Iran’s Cultural Heritage Under Threat
August 31, 2026In addition to depriving Iranians of their cultural property, a decision to turn over the artifacts...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
August 16, 2026The novel opens with a striking, abrupt proclamation: “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first...
Movies
The Big Easy: Great movies and TV set in New Orleans
September 7, 2026Music is the heart and soul of New Orleans: Wendell Pierce in a publicity shot for...
The Fourth Wall
Corey Haim Found Dead of Accidental Overdose
August 26, 2026Corey Haim, one of the ’80s brightest teen stars, was found dead aged 38 of an...
The Fourth Wall
What happened to teen movies?!
August 28, 2026“On Wednesdays we wear pink!” (Mean Girls: a frightfully accurate portrayal of peer pressure and conformity.)...
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