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Movie Review: Legion
April 23, 2025According to the script, God has lost faith in humanity, ostensibly because he grew “tired of...
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Michelangelo: A Tormented Life by Antonio Forcellino
April 23, 2025Before dawn on the morning of February 18 a group of Florentines entered the church stealthily...
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Fables: The Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 by Bill Willingham
April 23, 2025But without a doubt, it’s the series that he began seven years ago, Fables, that has...
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Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
April 22, 2025The novel opens with a striking, abrupt proclamation: “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first...
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The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
April 22, 2025Oliver won’t socialize. He won’t even speak. He simply spends his days wrapped in his obsession,...
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Small Wars by Sadie Jones
April 22, 2025The conflict becomes a war in which, “…there was no truth. It was a nothing, laughable...
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Video Game Review: Bayonetta
April 22, 2025She also wears glasses, which may pass for originality these days but is thematically appropriate because...
Books
Some Like It Hot: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion by Laurence Maslon
April 21, 2025There’s plenty about Monroe, of course — her perpetual lateness to the set, her entourage (especially...
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
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...
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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...
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Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes
April 21, 2025Ritchie, whose previous films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch are cult favorites, brings...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Movie Review: Nine
April 19, 2025Marshall apparently strove for the early 60s New Wave Cinema feel, which relied heavily on shaky...
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Critics’ Picks: Best Books of 2009
April 19, 2025Our annual selection of noteworthy books.
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
June 30, 2026The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
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