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Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
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The Big Machine by Victor LaValle
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Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
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The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
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Movie Review: Taking Woodstock
April 4, 2025Though his oeuvre includes everything from melodrama to martial arts, Lee’s most endearing projects are intimate,...
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Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
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From Galileo to Gell-Mann: The Wonder That Inspired The Greatest Scientists of All Time in Their Own Words
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Ron Arad: No Discipline at MoMA
April 4, 2025The experience of viewing “No Discipline,” the first major U.S. retrospective of the virtuosic, Israeli-born designer...
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Movie Review: District 9
April 3, 2025It is perhaps the most dystopian vision of alien contact ever filmed: the aliens are not...
Fiction Reviews
The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King
April 3, 2025Most of the narratives are first-person accounts by Mary, so readers get to know her very...
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Knife Song Korea by Richard Selzer
April 3, 2025On arriving at his small and isolated army base in Korea, Sloane is met by Larry...
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In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
April 3, 2025Yuri is a porter, one of Britain’s penniless immigrants that Ali would like us (and Gabe)...
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A Conversation with Author and McSweeney’s Editor Paul Collins
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Italy
A New Look at Rome’s Rousing Middle Ages
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Art & Design
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Nina Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
April 2, 2025The concept of Pleasures and Sorrows is a good one. De Botton sets out on a...
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Waiting for the Etonians by Nick Cohen
April 1, 2025Nick Cohen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest living polemicists, and Waiting for the Etonians will...
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Rain Gods By James Lee Burke
April 1, 2025Burke’s life has provided ample experience to draw from for his mysteries that feature world-wise and...
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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: ‘Holding On’ (Season 8, Episode 21)
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The Office Recap: Free Family Portrait Studio (Season 8, Episode 24)
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