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Artist’s Blacklist Fights Speculation
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The Weekly Listicle: Best Horror Movie Villains EVER.
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Suburban Gothic: A. Clarke Bedford’s America
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After Image
How to Get Your Work in the Louvre? Hang it up Yourself!
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman by Chloë Schama
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Movie Review: The Losers
May 17, 2025Movies with titles like The Losers are a gift to film critics. The monikers may be...
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The Weekly Listicle: Elite Teams of Elite-ness
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William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 4-20-10
May 17, 2025I’m not sure how much more I can say about how absolutely, 100% motherf***ing bad James...
Movies
Movie Review: Kick-Ass
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Art
Running Fence: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Masterpiece Revisited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
May 14, 2025While one might be tempted to attribute the project's failure to grandiose ambition, the success of...
Movies
The Big Easy: Great movies and TV set in New Orleans
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Movies
When Film Critics Lose a Bet, Part 2: Tommy Wiseau’s The Room!
May 14, 2025My clearest thought while watching The Room was that the film plays like a screenplay Neil...
Movies
William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 4-13-10
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Movies
Movie Review: The Runaways
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The Weekly Listicle: Antiheroes!
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Biography
Book Review: Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen by Jimmy McDonough
May 14, 2025In the Nashville of the 1960s, songs were typically recorded in an hour or less and...
Art
Where’s the Love? Robert Indiana Sued by Former Business Partner
May 14, 2025With the possible exception of Milton Glaser's I love New York, no single piece of typography...
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The Weekly Listicle: Worst. Dates. Ever.
May 13, 2025From Travis Bickle’s unfortunate taste in movies in Taxi Driver, to history’s second most ill-fated prom...
Art
A Match Made in Heaven: Jeff Koons’ BMW Art Car
May 13, 2025Jeff Koons: design sketch for the 17th BMW Art Car 2010 © Jeff Koons, Image Source:...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Autobiography of an Execution by David R. Dow
May 13, 2025There are cases in which even though relatives of the victims have argued against death for...
Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
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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
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Non-Fiction Reviews
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
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...
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The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
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Einstein in Japan
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