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Movie Review: The Informant!
April 7, 2025Perhaps the most ingenious part of Whitacre’s affect (and the film) is his stream-of-consciousness inner monologue....
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Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
April 7, 2025Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American. Karl Marx contributed almost...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks by Ethan Gilsdorf
April 6, 2025The Otherkin Resource Center (ORC) exists for people who don’t believe they are human. Elves, vampires,...
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The Twelve by William Gladstone
April 6, 2025This novel follows the exploits of intellectual and spiritual wunderkind Max Doff who, even as an...
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Movie Review: 9
April 6, 2025The film is truly gorgeous to behold. Starz Animation has officially given Pixar a run for...
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Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
April 6, 2025But, as we see in the terrifying drawings of his radiologist father giving him neck adjustments—“kkrraackk,”...
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Movie Review: The September Issue
April 5, 2025From pink to black and from Paris to Bryant Park, this flashy documentary by R.J. Cutler...
Fiction Reviews
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
April 5, 2025Krista and Aaron eventually do meet, in a shocking incident that leaves little space for spoken...
Fiction Reviews
The Big Machine by Victor LaValle
April 5, 2025The Big Machine is what urban fantasy looks like when it’s grown up and the writer...
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Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
April 5, 2025Sing in me, Muse quotes Homer (the original one). "Jacqueline, my muse, I speak to you...
Mystery
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
April 5, 2025She sees faces in the flaking walls of the kitchen, fears for the soul of a...
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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
April 4, 2025Smart though Tarantino may be, his self-aggrandizing filmic techniques grow old. Placing arrows and title cards...
Non-Fiction Reviews
From Galileo to Gell-Mann: The Wonder That Inspired The Greatest Scientists of All Time in Their Own Words
April 4, 2025Duccio Machetto opines in the book’s introduction that, “Today science and theology are more aware of...
Art
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...
Movies
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
April 3, 2025"I think most scholars tend to trust the First Folio more than anything else, not because...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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