Image of the Month — JULY 2026

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FILMS — JUNE 2026

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(Taka­ha­ta 1988) Grave of the Fireflies
(Ban­gu­ra 2023) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.133 ― The Black­trees Prophecy
(Walsh 1941) High Sierra
(Ban­gu­ra 2025) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.137 ― The Devil’s Work
(Colum­bus 2025) The Thurs­day Mur­der Club
(Pow­ell 1937) The Edge of the World
(Wilkin­son 2023) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.134 ― Book of the Dead
(Lester 1963) The Mouse On the Moon
(Wilder 1959) Some Like It Hot
(Gib­son 2025) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.139 ― Claws Out
(Hus­ton 1951) The African Queen
(Lopez 2025) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.140 ― A Cli­mate of Death
(Cardiff 1964) The Long Ships
(Cur­tiz 1933) Mys­tery of the Wax Museum

First-time listening for JUNE 2026

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27070. (Neko Case) Cana­di­an Amp EP
27071. (Mat­mos) Matmos
27072. (Martha Wain­wright) Bloody Moth­er Fuck­ing Ass­hole EP
27073. (Marya Takeuchi) Request
27074. (Mikhail Glin­ka) Sonata in D Minor for Vio­la and Piano
27075. (Tom Cochrane & Red Rid­er) Trapeze: The Collection
27076. (Michael Chap­man) True North
27077. (Lethal Biz­zle) Best of Bizzle

READING — JUNE 2026

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25581. (Mar­garet Atwood & Ken Stea­cy) War Bears [graph­ic nov­el; issues 1–3]
25582. (Vir­gil Fin­lay) The Art­work of Vir­gil Finlay
25583. (Charles D. Michael) Brave Deeds for British Boys
25584. (Andreas G. Vla­chopou­los) The Wall Paint­ings From the Xeste 3 Building 
. . . . . at Akrotiri: Towards an Inter­pre­ta­tion of the Icono­graph­ic Programme
. . . . . [arti­cle]
25585. (Michael Arvaar­luk Kusug­ak) Base­ball Bats for Christ­mas [ill. Vladyana 
. . . . . Krykorka]
25586. (G. A. Hen­ty) At Agin­court ― A Tale of the White Hoods of Paris
25587. (Jesús Gil Fuen­san­ta, Alfre­do Mederos Martín & Otabek Uktanovich Muminov) 
. . . . . Between Ebla and Mari: Unsta­ble Equi­lib­ri­um Dur­ing the Ear­ly Bonze III in 
. . . . . Upper Mesopotamia [arti­cle]
25588. (Wany­ing Sun & Wen Liu) Children’s Group Altru­is­tic Pref­er­ences: The 
. . . . . Mod­er­at­ing Effect of Self-esteem and Left-behind Sta­tus [arti­cle]
25589. (John Edwards Williams) Stoner
25590. (William Michael Carter) Cana­da Urgent­ly Needs a Civil­ian Defence Strategy 
. . . . . ― Before the Next Cri­sis Forces One [arti­cle]

Image of the Month — JUNE 2026

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FILMS — MAY 2026

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(Mar­tin 2025) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.143 ― Death Strikes Three
(Sauvé 2019) La Faille: Ep.2 ― Les proches
(Werk­er 1939) The Adven­tures of Sher­lock Holmes
(Carter 2025) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.144 ― Top of the Class
(Rawl­ins 1942) Sher­lock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
(Lubitsch 1930) Monte Carlo
(Deer 2022) Three Pines: Ep.4 ― The Cru­elest Month, Part 2
(Truffault1966) Fahren­heit 451
(Eggers 2015) The Witch
(Greene 1959) The Cos­mic Man
(Gilbert 1957) The Admirable Crich­ton [aka Par­adise Lagoon]
(Petrie 1974) Buster and Billie
(Crich­ton 1964) The Third Secret

First-time listening for MAY 2026

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27053. (Fid­lar) Fidlar
27054. (George Fred­erik Hän­del) Vio­lin Sonata in F, Op.1 #12, Hwv.370
27055. (Palm­bomen) Night Flight Europa
27056. (Mat­teo Man­cu­so) The Journey
27057. (George Fred­erik Hän­del) Vio­lin Sonata in A, Op.1 #10 [doubt­ful attrib.]
27058. (H. P. Love­craft) Live, May 11 1968
27059. (Vicky Carr) The Best of Vicky Carr ― The Lib­er­ty Years
27060. (George Fred­erik Hän­del) Vio­lin Sonata in E, Op.1 #12 “Roger”
27061. (Half Waif) Kotekan
27062. (Vir­ginia Wing) Mea­sures of Joy
27063. (Free Kit­ten) Unboxed
27064. (George Fred­erik Hän­del) Vio­lin Sonata in G, Hmv.358
27065. (Scream­ing Females) Rose Mountain
27066. (Mac DeMar­co) This Old Dog
27067. (Dimi Mint Abba & Khal­i­fa Ould Eide) Moor­ish Music from Mauritania
27068. (George Fred­erik Hän­del) Andante in A Minor for Vio­lin & Harp­si­chord, Hmv.412
27069. (George Fred­erik Hän­del) Alle­gro in C Minor for Vio­lin & Harp­si­chord, Hmv.408

READING — MAY 2026

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25571. (Michael Arvaar­luk Kusug­ak & Robert N. Mun­sch) A Promise Is a Promise 
25572. (Gigi Tevzadze) Trans­fer of Roy­al Fish and the Non-evo­lu­tion­ary His­to­ry of Black Sea 
. . . . . Stur­geons [arti­cle]
25573. (Domi­t­il­la Sagramoso & Akhnet Yarlykapov) What Drove Young Dages­tani Mus­lims to 
. . . . . Join Isis? [arti­cle]
25574. (Dominique Foufelle & Isabelle de Couli­boeuf) Cahi­er de colo­riages Gus­tav Klimt, le 
. . . . . fon­da­teur de la séces­sion Viennoise 
25575. (Esmond W. Non­ter­ah et al) Vit­a­min A Sup­ple­men­ta­tion and Nutri­tion­al Sta­tus among 
. . . . . Chi­dren 6–36 Months in North­ern Ghana [arti­cle]
25576. (Robert Sheck­ley) The Game of X
25577. (Robert G. Fran­cis­cus) When Did the Mod­ern Human Pat­tern of Child­birth Arise? New 
. . . . . Insights from an Old Nean­derthal Pelvis [arti­cle]
25578. (Adam Gaudry & Dar­ryl Ler­oux) White Set­tler Revi­sion­ism and Mak­ing Métis 
. . . . . Every­where: The Evo­ca­tion of Métis­sage in Que­bec and Nova Sco­tia [arti­cle]
25579. (Alfre­do Mederos Martín & Thomas X. Schuh­mach­er) The First Bell Beakers in the 
. . . . . Iber­ian Penin­su­la, 2659–2550 BC [arti­cle]
25580. (Rick Mer­cer) A Nation Worth Rant­i­ng About

Image of the Month — MAY 2026

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The town of Boucherville, fac­ing Mon­tre­al from across the St. Lawrence. In the dis­tance can be seen Mont Saint-Hilaire, an extinct vol­cano with a crater lake on its sum­mit. To the left of this, and just at the hori­zon, is the tiny vil­lage of Sainte-Madeleine, where my moth­er was born. Beyond the hori­zon are the Mégan­tic Moun­tains, an exten­sion of the Green Moun­tains of Vermont.

FILMS — APRIL 2026

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(Hamer 1954) Father Brown [aka The Detective]
(Ros­mer 1934) The Secret of the Loch
(Mankiewicz 1963) Cleopatra
(Neill 1944) The Scar­let Claw
(Dono­van 2022) Three Pines: Ep.1 ― White Out, Part 1
(Neill 1944) The Pearl of Death
(Dono­van 2022) Three Pines: Ep.1 ― White Out, Part 2
(Lan­field 1939) The Hound of the Baskervilles
(Gilbert 2025) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.141 ― Trea­sures of Darkness 
(Neill 1943) Sher­lock Holmes Faces Death
(Ban­gu­ra 2025) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.142 ― Lawn of the Dead
(Schus­ter 1942) On the Sun­ny Side
*(John­son 2025) Nir­vana the Band the Show the Movie
(Hamil­ton & Kil­ly 1935) Sev­en Keys to Baldpate
(Deer 2022) Three Pines: Ep.3 ― The Cru­elest Month, Part 1
(Innuk­suk 2022) Slash/Back
(Sauvé 2019) La Faille: Ep.1 ― Accidents
(Cyr 2022) Michel Trem­blay en qua­tre-vingts temps