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Jerry Hall – master thespian, or at least a really fast one: Jerry Hall dashed around London’s theater district Tuesday night, appearing briefly in six musicals – and six costumes – but didn’t have to learn any lines. The theatrical marathon, one of a series of events promoting London as …

Checking out a gritty s-f manga series. . .

A new collection of dark and quirky art-pulp comix.

We have been discussing improving our writing and editing quite a bit of late in an effort to make Blogcritics a bit more uniform and easier to read. I am very gratified that so many of us are interested in improving our written communications – that is kind of what …

Clevelander Joe Eszterhas, Hollywood screenwriter more famous for being a dickhead than anything else, has a new memoir out about his complete change of life brought about by cancer of the larnyx, among other things. I’m glad he stopped smoking and drinking – good for him – but when the …

Ian Buruma, who with his writing partner Avishai Margalit, has been advancing a theory of “Occidentalism” as a counterpart to Said’s “Orientalism” since 9/11, restates his theory in The Chronicle of Higher Education in advance of their new book: the kind of violence currently directed at targets associated with the …

Our manga exploration continues with a look at a popular shoujo (girls') comic series.

Continuing our manga exploration: with a plain old-fashioned mysery series. . .

I have been at war with myself: on one side of the DMZ are the anal forces of completism that drive me to carry every project out to its fullest extension. Since I don’t write very quickly, this tendency makes most any review I write take agonized hours. As a …

We reported last week that monologist-actor-author Spalding Gray was declared missing last Monday. He hasn’t turned up yet: Before he disappeared last week, Spalding Gray had been performing early versions of a new work that had long bedeviled him – a monologue about a car wreck more than two years …