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  • Inventory “We stuck your girlfriend on an island”: 22 main characters casually dismissed in sequels 

     The A.V. Club's weekly list.

    May 14, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Andrés Neuman: Traveler Of The Century

    Sex, history, and literary criticism merge in this compelling novel from a Spanish-based writer getting his first English translation.

    May 7, 2012 | 12:02am -

  • Book Review Joe Pantoliano: Asylum: Hollywood Tales From My Great Depression

    The pugnacious actor from Memento, The Matrix, and much more supposedly wants to educate the world about mental illness, but this odd collection of anecdotes doesn’t fit the bill. 

    April 30, 2012 | 12:03am -

  • Inventory Yes, animals were harmed: 21 films and TV shows that killed or hurt animals 

    The A.V. Club's weekly list. 

    April 9, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Hari Kunzru: Gods Without Men

    A story of parents who lose their autistic boy in the desert—possibly to aliens?—doubles as an indictment of Western culture. 

    April 2, 2012 | 12:02am -

  • Inventory That’s Eastertainment!: 27 Easter-based entertainments that aren’t Biblical epics

    The A.V. Club's weekly list.

    April 2, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Geoff Dyer: Zona: A Book About A Film About A Journey To A Room

    The author of Out Of Sheer Rage dissects Andrei Tarkovsky’s landmark film Stalker by way of free association and personal connections.

    March 14, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Book Review Craig Taylor: Londoners: The Days And Nights Of London Now

    A Studs Terkel-esque collection of short interviews covers a wide swath of London life, as people discuss their city’s best and worst sides.

    February 29, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Inventory How did they ever make a movie of…? : 17 successful adaptations of “unadaptable” books

    The A.V. Club's weekly list.

    February 27, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Jim Yardley: Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, An American Coach, And Two Cultures Clashing

    A Pulitzer-winning critic compellingly examines Chinese basketball, as imported NBA figures and Western coaching styles cause a culture clash.

    February 22, 2012 | 12:02pm -

  • Inventory Landmark films: 13 newly constructed buildings prominently featured in film

    The A.V. Club’s weekly list.

    February 13, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Inventory Whose horse is it, anyway? 20 stories that follow property from owner to owner 

    The A.V. Club’s weekly list. 

    February 6, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Ben Hellwarth: Sealab: America’s Forgotten Quest To Live And Work On The Ocean Floor 

    No, this book isn’t about the Cartoon Network animated series, it’s about 60 years of attempts to create a real-life underwater lab—with fatal results. 

    February 1, 2012 | 12:01pm -

  • Book Review Richard Rhodes: Hedy’s Folly

    The Pulitzer-winning author of The Making Of The Atomic Bomb turns his sights to “most beautiful woman in the world Hedy Lamarr, but his dry history splits its focus.

    January 18, 2012 | 12:01pm -

  • Inventory Cartoon break: 20 live-action movies with one animated scene

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    January 16, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Ann Beattie: Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines A Life

    Richard Nixon's wife provides a focus for this series of stylistic exercises and literary musings

    January 4, 2012 | 12:01pm -

  • Best of The best books we read in 2011 

    What we read, and why we loved it, in 2011. 

    December 28, 2011 | 12:01pm -

  • Book Review Paul Brannigan: This Is A Call: The Life And Times Of Dave Grohl 

    The nicest guy in rock gets an equally nice bio, but “nice” doesn't mean “compelling.” 

    December 21, 2011 | 12:04pm -

  • Book Review Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum: I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story Of The Music Video Revolution

    This colorful oral history of MTV’s early years doesn’t pull punches or waste time on fluffy sentiment.

    November 16, 2011 | 12:02pm -

  • Inventory Stockholm swooning: 22 films where women fall in love with their kidnappers

    The A.V. Club's weekly list

    November 14, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • Book Review Spalding Gray (Nell Casey, ed.): The Journals Of Spalding Gray

    The late monologuist is presented in his own words, in a book whittled down from 5,000 pages of depressed self-accusation and sexual fixation.

    November 2, 2011 | 12:02pm -

  • Book Review Michael Lewis: Boomerang

    The author of Moneyball and The Big Short looks at troubled economies around the world and at home in this collection of polished-up Vanity Fair articles.

    October 19, 2011 | 12:03pm -

  • Book Review Chuck Klosterman: The Visible Man

    The second novel by the essayist behind Fargo Rock City and Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs would have done just as well to leave the fiction trappings behind.

    October 12, 2011 | 12:04pm -

  • Book Review David King: Death In The City Of Light

    This look at infamous French serial killer Marcel Petiot benefits from newly released police information, and seems aimed at fans of The Devil In The White City.

    October 12, 2011 | 12:01pm -

  • Book Review John Rodden: The Unexamined Orwell

    A scholar’s seventh book on George Orwell makes some salient observations, but shows the strain of diminishing returns.

    September 7, 2011 | 12:03pm -

  • Book Review Jeff Ryan: Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America

    This partially lively videogame history argues that Nintendo owes its success to Mario the plumber, but the entertaining start bogs down toward the end.

    August 31, 2011 | 12:02pm -

  • Book Review Geoffrey Gray: Skyjack: The Hunt For D.B. Cooper

    It’s rare for writers to come to the strange story of D.B. Cooper with an agenda and a theory. This book skips both in favor of the broad overview.

    August 24, 2011 | 12:01pm -

  • Book Review Simon Reynolds: Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction To Its Own Past

    The author of Rip It Up And Start Again returns with a disgressive conversation-starter that asks whether pop music has hit a self-recycling dead end.

    August 3, 2011 | 12:04pm -

  • Book Review Patrick McGilligan: Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure Of An American Director

    The arresting subtitle says it all, as a veteran biographer argues that the director of Rebel Without A Cause never reached his true potential.

    July 27, 2011 | 12:00pm -

  • Book Review Charles Drazin: French Cinema

    An initially comprehensive, well-argued overview of French film dismissively undervalues everything since the end of the ’50s.

    June 29, 2011 | 10:00am -

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