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Movie Review: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
August 8, 2026Comedian Mo’Nique, best known for urban comedies like Phat Girlz and Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, gives...
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Movie Review: New Moon
August 8, 2026The movie positively drags at two hours eleven minutes; when the kids at the front of...
Art & Design
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...
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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,...
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The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
August 7, 2026Even so, to hold The Lacuna in one’s hand, to read it, is to witness and...
Movies
Movie Review: Pirate Radio
August 7, 2026Aside from the lack of a true protagonist, a number of small story arcs fall a...
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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....
Art & Design
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,...
Thrillers
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...
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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...
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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,...
Art
Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort at The National Museum of the American Indian
August 6, 2026The first piece you see upon entering is Shapeshifter (2000), an enormous, abstracted whale skeleton built...
Fiction Reviews
The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
August 5, 2026She’s developed an enjoyable way of beginning novels in the middle of a story, letting her...
Non-Fiction Reviews
In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
August 5, 2026Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
Movies
Movie Review: The Maid
August 5, 2026It’s in this last third of the film that Catalina Saavedra’s performance as Raquel carries the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
August 5, 2026The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
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Vanessa and Virginia by Susan Sellers
August 5, 2026As a cultural, literary, and historical icon, Virginia Woolf was celebrated by contemporaries and has continued...
Music
Nicole Atkins: Femme Noir
August 4, 2026She’s been called the female Roy Orbison, a psychedelic metalhead who grew up listening to Elvis...
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Movie Review: Amelia
August 4, 2026Furthermore, Nair chooses to play it safe by directing an uninspiring paint-by-numbers biopic complete with voice-overs...
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The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
August 4, 2026The unit of measure is a “Darwin,” so named by famed geneticist J. B. S. Haldane....
Non-Fiction Reviews
In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
August 5, 2026Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
Art & Design
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,...
History
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 18, 20262009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
Art
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
July 15, 2026Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
July 12, 2026Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
African American
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
July 15, 2026Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
Art
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
July 27, 2026Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
African American
Movie Review: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
August 8, 2026Comedian Mo’Nique, best known for urban comedies like Phat Girlz and Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, gives...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 3, 2026Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
Art & Design
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
July 18, 2026In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
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