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Mensch, or passive-aggressive prima donna?
Eric Boehlert
Letterman stayed out of the brawl over whether he'd replace Ted Koppel's "Nightline," but his minions' manipulations still made the late-night king look bad.
“Blues for Cannibals” by Charles Bowden
Michelle Goldberg
Another writer tries to shock us out of our bourgeois complacency with seedy tales of life in the gutter. Isn't this shtick getting pretty stale?
“My job is to choreograph chaos”
Adrienne Crew
Filmmaker Mira Nair talks about "Monsoon Wedding," her homemade tribute to Bollywood that's breaking art-house records across North America.
Bill Hicks, the black-humored articulator of doubt
Jack Boulware
One of America's best and darkest comedians is eight years gone, but with a new biography and a new CD, his career shows no signs of stopping.
Strange declarations
Cary Tennis
Why do married men tell me they love me, then fail to take any action? Plus: I'm in love with him, but his kids hate me.
A conversation with Jonathan Coe
Charles Taylor
The author of "The Rotters' Club" talks about "pleasuring the reader," Henry Fielding, Dickens, Angus Wilson and Margaret Thatcher as a feminist icon.
“Sign O’ the Times”
Bomani Jones
Part '80s musical retrospective, part angry social document and all booty-thumping housequake, Prince's 1987 classic stands as pop's last great double album.
James Carville
Joan Walsh
The Ragin' Cajun savages spineless Democrats, journalists who suck up to Bush and the GOP politicians who brought us Enron.
The apostate
Kerry Lauerman
Former conservative attack dog David Brock tells all about his old right-wing cronies -- but whoever gets smeared, the results are still slimy.
No Salman row!
Amy Reiter
Rushdie says he's not fighting with girlfriend; indecent proposals from Mr. Big; neighbors to Seinfeld: Hellooo, you're too noisy! Pamela Anderson slaps down Kim Cattrall.
“The Last Opium Den” by Nick Tosches
Michelle Goldberg
Tough-guy writer Nick Tosches elegantly mourns the vanishing of a decadent icon. But I know from my own blissful experience that the opium den lives on.
Ants for breakfast
Gary Presley
Tart and tangy, the wee Camponotus consobrinus gives me a lesson in world culture.
Sneaking peeks at the porn clowns
Daniel Terdiman
Even flaming exhibitionists agree: Digital cameras and the Internet make invading a person's privacy much too easy.
“The Years of Rice and Salt” by Kim Stanley Robinson
Laura Miller
A novelist imagines 700 years of history in which the plague has wiped out the West and China and Islam rule the globe.
“Trouble Every Day”
Andrew O'Hehir
Steamy anonymous sex meets horrible crimes of violence in Claire Denis' languid, lurid new art movie.
Fidel, Monica and me
Nina Khrushcheva
Khrushchev's great-granddaughter on her dreams of marrying Cuba's mysterious leader -- and the lessons that Monica Lewinsky offers our so-called democracy.
Death and the maiden
Jonathon Keats
Far from an article of bondage, the corset has been an instrument of liberation.
“How does it feel to be America’s blow-job queen?”
Ian Rothkerch
In their HBO movie "Monica in Black and White," documentarians Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey riff on Lewinsky, celebrity and the tough questions.
If looks could kill
David Thomson
The glance Sherron Watkins gives her ex-boss tells us all we need to know about Enron's sexual politics.
Skilling’s return engagement
Jake Tapper
Hauled before the Senate, Congress' favorite Enron whipping boy rails against his persecutors, and defends Ken Lay.
Genome liberation
Annalee Newitz
The information that details who we are is too important to be privately owned.
Bushed!
David Talbot
Osama bin Laden is still at large and Afghanistan is a mess -- so why is the president in a hurry to take his anti-terror campaign elsewhere?
Gods and monsters
Dimitra Kessenides
The director of the acclaimed new movie "Wendigo" talks about horror, terror, metaphysics, mythology, constructing a moral order and how Sept. 11 undermined his agenda.
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