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Pritzker Prize goes to Bowery Museum’s Architects
May 23, 2025The 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize was awarded to the Japanese duo, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa....
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Bret Easton Ellis: Film requires the male gaze, female directors need not apply
May 23, 2025Movieline printed an interview with author Bret Easton Ellis, whose most famous work is probably American...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Other Lives by Peter Bagge
May 23, 2025Overall, there’s a universality to the dilemma that Bagge’s characters face: Who are we? We each...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz by Randall Sandke
May 21, 2025Sandke offers no critical commentary about this piece of advice that was given Armstrong after he...
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The Weekly Listicle: The Worst Endings Ever EVER.
May 21, 2025Six seasons have come and passed, but now this Sunday, May 23rd, ‘Lost’ finally comes to...
Architecture
Recycling Meets Recreation
May 21, 2025Last year Macro-Sea conceived of the Dumpster Pool. The designers constructed what they call a "lo-fi...
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What summer should have been: Camp in Movies and TV
May 21, 2025It’s already mid-May, guys. Summer’s nearly upon us. “Summer” means something different to everyone, but universally...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Songs of Hollywood by Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson
May 21, 2025For the next few years, Hollywood musicals, climaxing in 42nd Street (1933), would be "backstage" pictures....
Movies
miniBLOGS: Why “Lost” Sucked This Week, Why 3-D is Doomed, and Three Trailers You HAVE to See
May 21, 2025The problem is that “Lost: The Science Fiction Series” was just okay, while “Lost: The Fantasy...
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The Weekly Listicle: Action Heroines!
May 21, 2025For some reason Ridley Scott decided another retelling of Robin Hood was a good idea, and...
Art
The Life and Work of Eadweard Muybridge
May 21, 2025Muybridge had married his young assistant, in 1871. After a while, he began to suspect that...
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Movie Review: Iron Man 2
May 20, 2025Jon Favreau’s first Iron Man was a snazzy little number, cherry red and rocket-fueled and brimming...
Movies
The Final Word: Is horror better left off-screen?
May 20, 2025Welcome back to The Final Word, a running feature from me (Julia Rhodes) and William Bibbiani,...
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Book Review: Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
May 20, 2025Pity Duane W. Roller, author of Cleopatra: A Biography. I can just imagine the initial conversation...
Vietnam
Book Review: Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
May 20, 2025The story is set in the spring of 1969 in the northwest corner of the country...
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Discussion: The Best TV of the Last Fifteen Years
May 19, 2025TV: Is it making us dumber, and how is it changing? (Aside from the fact that...
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Book Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
May 19, 2025Beginning around 1800, the hunt started to find the “real” Shakespeare, the noble visionary who had...
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The Final Word: Is 3-D better than 2-D?
May 19, 2025Oh sure, we’re probably going to be stuck with 3-D forever now that everyone flocked to...
Movies
Movie Review: Nightmare on Elm Street
May 19, 2025The new Springwood is a land of green lawns, money, and white-trimmed colonial houses where teenagers...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: The Finest Costumes in Film History
May 18, 2025Excellent costume design is flattering, practical, thematically appropriate and iconic, and our choices for the Best...
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...
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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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