Hugh Ruppersburg lives and works in Athens, Georgia.
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David Lindley’s Uncertainty provides a highly readable account of the uncertainty principle and the scientists involved in its discovery.
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DVD Review: Scoop
Woody Allen's latest is a slight, ephemeral comedy that begins with the unlikely appearance of a ghost and ends with the solution to a murder.
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Movie Review: The Illusionist
The Illusionist is all surface, but it is entertaining in the best sense of the word.
Crime, violence, corruption, and broken American ideals loom at the heart of The Departed, the new film by Martin Scorsese.
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Book Review: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Set in a post-apocalyptic world, The Road is an environmental parable, an ecological novel where ecology no longer exists.
Shopgirl is a quiet film and perhaps a small one, but it offers a deep understanding and appreciation of human character.
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Book Review: A Killing Fever by Robert Cooperman
The poems in Robert Cooperman's A Killing Fever tell a tale of violence, love, and bloody retribution.
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Movie Review: Murray Lerner's Festival
Festival is a powerful record of the Newport Folk Festival and the folk movement of the 1960s.
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Book Review: The Celestial Jukebox by Cynthia Shearer
This novel celebrates and explores the multicultural American South. It's a wonderful study in human character.
The Wicker Man remake is implausible in every way, and its attacks on women and others are disturbing.
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