Movie Review: New Moon
August 8, 2026The movie positively drags at two hours eleven minutes; when the kids at the front of...
Directions: John Gerrard at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
August 8, 2026So what are today’s landscape artists telling us? In his eponymous show at the Hirshhorn, John...
Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs by Jeni Stepanek
August 8, 2026He explains it in his journals as “Whatever it is that a person needs or wants,...
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
August 7, 2026Even so, to hold The Lacuna in one’s hand, to read it, is to witness and...
Movie Review: Pirate Radio
August 7, 2026Aside from the lack of a true protagonist, a number of small story arcs fall a...
My Prison, My Home: One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran by Haleh Esfandiari
August 7, 2026Her jail term of one hundred and five days was the culmination of an eight-month ordeal....
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 7, 2026The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
Under the Dome by Stephen King
August 6, 2026Still, despite the ending, this is King’s best work in years, a richly textured novel of...
Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey
August 6, 2026The 19th century science known as phrenology — which posited that the human skull conforms to...
Movie Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats
August 6, 2026Imagine a world in which the military trains soldiers not to kill enemies of the state,...




