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The Chinese cook who saved my dad’s restaurant
Sidney W. Mintz
My Jewish father ran a dying restaurant in New Jersey -- but everything changed when he swapped cuisines
Compromise or betrayal?
Joan Walsh
If Democrats cut Social Security, they're breaking a campaign promise and fostering cynicism about politics.
Kristen Stewart: The thinking person’s movie star
Andrew O'Hehir
The "Twilight" star talks about media insanity, her unbelievable career arc and her role in "On the Road"
Sandy Hook’s future unclear as funerals for students begin
Matt Apuzzo, Pat Eaton-robb
The first two funerals will be held Monday, but when and where class will resume is undecided
End of Sandy Hook Elementary?
Matt Apuzzo, Pat Eaton-robb
As Newtown plans its first burials, town officials won't say whether the school will reopen
“The New Normal” vs. “Modern Family”
Kera Bolonik
"Modern Family" is all jazz hands and bed death and gay minstrelsy. It's "New Normal" that has the real gay cred
Adam Mansbach: My year on the bestseller list
Adam Mansbach
When "Go the F to Sleep" become a sensation, I got a crash course in parenting, celebrity and Kathie Lee Gifford
Mixed feelings among gay marriage activists about SCOTUS decision
Jillian Rayfield
Only NOM is totally happy
“Homeland” recap: I’ve never been that stupid
Willa Paskin
"Homeland" tries to recover from last week's episode, but doesn't quite pull it off
“It’s a Wonderful Life”: Occupy Bedford Falls!
W. Andrew Ewell
Think "It's a Wonderful Life" is a sentimental holiday film? It's darker than you remember and speaks to our times
When Jews ruled basketball
David Davis
A brilliant, if uneven, new collection of essays celebrates the rarest breed of athlete -- the Jewish jock
Did “The Sopranos” kill the mafia drama?
George Potts
"Boardwalk Empire" is handsomely shot and well-acted -- and still somehow disappointing. Perhaps it's inevitable
James Bond and the killer bag lady
Mark Ames, Alexander Zaitchik
New clues and a powerful Wall St. skeptic challenge the official story of CIA financier Nick Deak's brutal murder
David Foster Wallace: Defining voice of depression?
Laurie Winer
Since the days of Sophocles, writers have been searching for a language for melancholy. Foster Wallace found it
6 chilling testimonies from occupied Palestine
Breaking the Silence
Israeli veterans speak out about the realities of their country's military policies in Gaza and other territories
Positive thinking is for suckers!
Oliver Burkeman
Self-help books don't work. Sex, family and work are stressful. Maybe we need to look at happiness in a new light
Anthony Burgess didn’t read science fiction
Jonathan Lethem
As an aspiring novelist, I asked the famous autodidact if his work was inspired by Philip K. Dick. Bad idea
“Parenthood’s” Mae Whitman: “All I do is talk about Tim Riggins and the Panthers”
Willa Paskin
The drama's prodigal daughter cops to an obsession with a bygone TV character — and to crying watching her own show
America’s first class-warfare election
Robert Borosage
Never has a presidential candidate so brazenly embraced the interests of the 1%. Mitt Romney may be the last
Kids hate-tweet Obama, echoing what they hear at home
Marie Myung-Ok Lee
A Tumblr of high-schoolers' awful tweets reveals that racism still gets passed on from generation to generation
“Silver Linings” is gold
Andrew O'Hehir
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence face love and mental illness in the rich, manic new romantic comedy
I’m gay. Why did I marry a woman?
Charles Rowan Beye
I knew I loved guys in high school and never stopped sleeping with them. But then I met a woman who fascinated me
Book publishing crisis: Capitalism kills culture
Scott Timberg
Publishing teeters as Random House and Penguin plan to merge. It's time for a government policy to protect the arts
Kirk Douglas’ revisionist history
Tom Benedek
In his self-important new memoir, the iconic actor wildly overestimates his role in breaking Hollywood's blacklist
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