Reviews SEX TAPE. It feels like most romantic comedies have the same pacing as big summer blockbusters. The stakes are impossibly high, each moment is incredibly important, all building toward a thrilling declaration of love in some giant set piece. A Katherine Heigl movie is just as exhausting as Transformers. Which is why the relaxed […]
Trevor Reece
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Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Biruté Galdikas
The connection between Tarzan and Jane Goodall never occurred to me until Page 2 of Primates, when a young Goodall daydreams of swinging on vines, jealous of Tarzan’s other Jane. Primates, a graphic novel written by Jim Ottaviani and drawn by Maris Wicks, tells the story of three icons in the field of primate studies: […]
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The Cuckoo’s Calling
By now, you’ve probably heard that Robert Galbraith, the author of The Cuckoo’s Calling, is really J.K. Rowling. Given how recently Rowling’s Harry Potter follow-up, The Casual Vacancy, was released under her real name, it’s strange that she would write under a pseudonym. Or maybe not. Like the story’s cold body, Lula Landry, Rowling knows […]
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A Real Slice of Humboldt
It takes a very specific kind of curiosity to be out on Humboldt Bay at 8 in the morning just to see oyster beds, and on June 11 that curiosity was on full display when nearly 40 people boarded the Madaket for the first of a series of tours being put on by the University […]