Art
Portraiture Now: Communities at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
April 21, 2025The astonishing amount of detail, the tremendous amount of work that went into crafting the tiny...
Art & Design
Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
April 21, 2025In Roberto Cuoghi’s 2006 portrait of Davide Halevim, one of the highlights of the section entitled...
Fiction Reviews
You or Someone Like You by Chandler Burr
April 21, 2025The religious and cultural tensions present in this book, while controversial, are always handled with grace...
Movies
Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes
April 21, 2025Ritchie, whose previous films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch are cult favorites, brings...
Fiction Reviews
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
April 20, 2025For Last Night in Twisted River is the work of a seasoned tale-teller, a writer who...
Movies
The Top 10 Movies of 2009
April 20, 2025At the end, she’s back at square one leading the student life, but inside, she’s grown...
Movies
The 10 Best Movies of the Decade (2000-2009)
April 20, 2025Wong Kar-wai’s beautiful tone poem is an ode to unrequited and impossible love. Its brilliant color...
Fiction Reviews
The Ghost King: Transitions III by R. A. Salvatore
April 20, 2025A fast-paced, heartrending book, The Ghost King is a must-read for any fans of the Drizzt...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Nine
April 19, 2025Marshall apparently strove for the early 60s New Wave Cinema feel, which relied heavily on shaky...
Best Books
Critics’ Picks: Best Books of 2009
April 19, 2025Our annual selection of noteworthy books.
Fiction Reviews
Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
April 19, 2025What’s remarkable about her is that she shares her story with the class simply, with a...
Movies
Movie Review: The Princess and the Frog
April 19, 2025Cinderella and Snow White are famously hardworking Disney princesses, but they were enslaved as a punishment...
Movies
Movie Review: Avatar
April 18, 2025The story and script fail to create multifaceted characters, sticking instead to the inherent malevolence of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson
April 18, 2025In some respects, the Thirty Years War resembles the Great War of 1914-1918. Political friction in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
April 18, 2025James Bradley doesn't like Theodore Roosevelt. Let's get that clear from the get-go. Nor does he...
Movies
Movie Review: A Single Man
April 18, 2025Based on Christopher Isherwood’s novel, the film is set in the 1960s and takes place over...
Fiction Reviews
Matchless by Gregory Maguire
April 17, 2025Matchless was originally composed by Maguire for the radio, and the story retains a sense of...
Movies
Tim Burton at MoMA
April 17, 2025Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Great Dinosaur Discoveries by Darren Naish
April 17, 2025Naish states that “most dinosaur books look at current views on dinosaurs and briefly recap the...
Fiction Reviews
Flesh and Fire: Book One of the Vineart War by Laura Anne Gilman
April 17, 2025The first clue that Gilman is not going to zing this story along with Tom Clancy...
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
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
June 9, 2026Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
Fiction Reviews
William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
June 7, 2026"The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much...
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
May 22, 2026What The Buddha Taught accurately describes itself as a reliable introduction to Buddhism. As a religion...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
May 23, 2026In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...
Fiction Reviews
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
Non-Fiction Reviews
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
June 7, 2026I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
June 7, 2026"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
June 3, 2026In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
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