- Love, Jalalabad style
- The straight poop
- Men behaving oddly
- The ghosts of “Gosford Park”
- Out of the frying pan, into group therapy
- Charlotte Rampling
- Is that all there is?
- Literary Daybook, Jan. 24
- “Capitalist Pigs”
- Houston under siege
- “Servants of the Map” by Andrea Barrett
- “The Passion of Artemisia” by Susan Vreeland
- Magic carpet ride
- “Tepper Isn’t Going Out” by Calvin Trillin
- “The Eyre Affair” by Jasper Fforde
- “Roscoe” by William Kennedy
- What to read in January
- Neil Bush says Arab P.R. machine not as good as Israel’s