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Book Review: Blue Nights by Joan Didion
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Book Review: Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow
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Art Review: Charles Dickens at 200, The Morgan Library and Museum
September 19, 2025Dickens’ novels probed the social ills of Victorian England in order to create unforgettable images of...
The Weekly Listicle: Method In Our Movie Madness
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Book Review: Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion by Janet Mullany
September 14, 2025At root, the novel seems to rest on a misapprehension: that the world of Jane Austen...
Book Review: Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris
September 12, 2025Woolf spent much of her life trying to free herself from the grasp of the past,...
Book Review: Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
September 8, 2025Neumeyer responded with scholarly esprit, but he was hard put to equal his partner’s digressions. The...
Trailer Watch: Martin Scorsese’s Hugo
August 23, 2025Martin Scorsese, Hollywood titan, enjoys a special reputation for directing violent, foul-mouthed crime flicks. Admittedly, he...
Bloody Sexy Things: Adapting Clive Barker
August 19, 2025Clive Barker has lent his eyes and hands to virtually every medium, from page to the...




