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When Film Critics Lose a Bet, Part 1: The Oscar!
May 8, 2025(The Oscar) has a reputation as one of the biggest turkeys in Hollywood history, in large...
Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Weekly Listicle: Dystopian Futures
May 6, 2025The March 19 release Repo Men is about a near-future in which organ transplants are simple,...
Fiction Reviews
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
May 6, 2025A startling achievement in a first novel, the work seems to have already touched a chord...
Fiction Reviews
A Separate Country by Robert Hicks
May 6, 2025A Separate Country tells the story of Confederate General John Bell Hood, who moves to New...
Art & Design
I Myself Have Seen It: Photography & Kiki Smith at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
May 6, 2025Contemporary sculptor and print maker Kiki Smith has been photographing and exhibiting her work for three...
After Image
The Art of Japanese Internment Camps at the Renwick Gallery
May 6, 2025An exhibition at the Renwick Gallery in Washington DC titled The Art of Gaman: Arts and...
After Image
A Case for Warhol’s Jews
May 6, 2025Since its in 1980, Critics have lambasted Warhol’s “Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century”...
Movies
What happened to teen movies?!
May 6, 2025“On Wednesdays we wear pink!” (Mean Girls: a frightfully accurate portrayal of peer pressure and conformity.)...
Movies
William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 3-16-10
May 5, 2025Confession time: I did not see the Academy Award-nominated The Princess and The Frog. In my...
Vietnam
Book Review: Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan
May 5, 2025Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife...
Movies
The Great Music Videos #1: “On Your Mark” (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
May 5, 2025Music videos have also of course been a spawning ground for great motion picture directors, from...
Movies
William’s Weekly DVD Heist: 3-9-10
May 5, 2025Every week, dozens of DVDs and Blu-Rays are released unto the world, and in this economy...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Dragon Factory by Jonathan Maberry
May 4, 2025The Extinction Clock is counting down. Time is short—10,800 minutes (just seven days)—and if the clock...
Art
Sex in the Vienna Secession – Because Airplane Bathrooms are so Passé
May 4, 2025The Vienna Secession, which was designed to display works by Gustav Klimt and his contemporaries, recently...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: William and Julia’s Revised Best/Worst Lists of 2009!
May 4, 2025This week in honor of the Academy Awards – traditionally the last opportunity to discuss the...
Movies
Corey Haim Found Dead of Accidental Overdose
May 4, 2025Corey Haim, one of the ’80s brightest teen stars, was found dead aged 38 of an...
Art
Art Review: 2010, Whitney Biennial
May 4, 2025It is undeniable that the reduction, which was largely brought on by budget constraints, has created...
Movies
And the loser is… William Bibbiani!
May 3, 2025Hey everyone. Well, I screwed up. I stand by my picks as logical predictions, but as...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
May 3, 2025Voodoo Histories isn’t an attempt to tell everyone to chill out and stop worrying about what...
Movies & TV
And the winner is…Julia Rhodes!
May 3, 2025Well, folks, I type this through a haze of last night’s bubbly. The Academy Awards ceremony...
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,...
Art & Design
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Military
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...
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...
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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