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Friday, August 22, 2025

Film Review: Americana

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In which much blood is shed over a shirt There’s an old joke that after anything bad happens in America, some wisecrack will remark that i...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

TV Review: Wednesday Season 2, Part 1

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Clever, funny, horror mayhem and lots of family drama   After a bold and successful first season, Wednesday has returned to Netflix with a...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Second Look Review: A Palace Near the Wind by AI Jiang

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The first half of a duology of one woman’s struggle to preserve her world’s culture, and find her mother, through an arranged marriage. Liu ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Book Review: Blood of the Old Kings by Sung-il Kim (tr. Anton Hur)

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Taking Down the Corpse-Empire The fall of empires is dramatic, especially when it is fast and violent. Such is what happened to the Japanese...
Monday, August 18, 2025

Book Review: No Sympathy by Eóin Dooley

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On using magic to slip away Theo is a man who is almost invisible. He is couch-surfing with people he vaguely considers his friends in Berli...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Book Review: The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

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An epic fantasy that provides new twists and avenues for familiar genre conventions Class and social distinctions. Longstanding grudges and ...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

On the cop movie spoof in the age of ACAB

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When Frank Drebin Jr. saves the day, what is actually being saved? Back when I was an impressionable elementary schooler, I saw the first ...
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