This small movie about a Napoleon impostor may be a trifle, but it's an exceptionally civilized, charming trifle.

My best friend's wedding came off with only a minimum of angst.

Your lying and philandering turned the country over to George W. Bush.

Johnny Cash was years early! The media mocked our unusual names — but our kids are thriving and better for it

In Stephen Greenblatt's marvelous new study, William Shakespeare emerges as a drab and conventional burgher who somehow became the greatest writer the world has ever known.

Episode 6: Treachery, thy name is Moretti-with-an-i. Plus: Jackson is a water wussy!

Enough is enough! Lazaro's a strutting bullyboy, Marisleysis is a hysterical narcissist; Ralph Nader may get my vote; and Phyllis Diller vs. Gloria Steinem.

The best films of the '90s illuminated the world -- and cinema itself.

In an era of wealth and excess, 19th century French anarchists introduced terrorism as we know it. Can a fascinating new history help us understand our own violent times?

Why can't we talk out of our rears? Are those movie explosions possible? A scientist puts farts under a microscope

Rebecca Chalker wants to return our attention to the part of a woman's body that's all about pleasure. Plus: A rant about "vagina night."

Director Alan Taylor ("Palookaville") makes the leap to television -- and hits a high note with his episode of "The Sopranos."

The author of "Sex and Punishment" discusses how people have sought to regulate sex

National policy shouldn't be set by packs of weeping white women led by Rosie O'Donnell.

Don't scapegoat greedy record execs for Napster's failure, says Joseph Menn in "All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster." The inept bunglers who ran the company have only themselves to blame.