Movie Review: J. Edgar
September 28, 2025In an interesting twist, the movie calls its own account of history into question, and that...
Book Review: Literary Brooklyn by Evan Hughes
September 28, 2025In his new history of the borough’s development you can virtually trace the emergence of America...
The Office Recap: Pam’s Replacement (Season 8, Episode 7)
September 27, 2025A recap/review of The Office's seventh episode of its eight season entitled Pam's Replacement
Art Review: Robert Adams: The Place We Live, Denver Art Museum
September 27, 2025The photographs in the retrospective are animated by the yearning for a sense of place, of...
Theater Review: Chinglish
September 27, 2025Only whipsmart playwright David Henry Hwang could have written Chinglish, the new biting comedy of manners...
The Walking Dead Recap: Cherokee Rose (Season 2, Episode 4)
September 27, 2025Three long episodes ago, Carl got shot and Sophia went missing. It’s only now, a third...
Book Review: Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
September 26, 2025The happiness was not to last. More Scrooge than Bob Cratchit in some respects, he was...
Television Review: Page Eight on PBS
September 26, 2025British spies these days – the most interesting ones at any rate – are weary, compromised...
Art Review: Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O’Keeffe, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
September 26, 2025Beginning with paintings, drawings and a limited number of sculptures by such “wild men” as Matisse,...
Music Review: New York Philharmonic, “John Williams: A Night at the Movies”
September 26, 2025Judging by the audience’s response, the final item listed on the program was what many had...




