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A trip to the Tate Modern
Alan Michael Parker
England's newest art cause cilhbre is a massive power station turned gallery on the banks of the Thames.
“Eyes Wide Shut”
Bill Wyman
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman talk about the late Stanley Kubrick on the sumptuous DVD release of the most misunderstood film in recent memory.
“The Language War” by Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Virginia Vitzthum
From hate speech laws to the battle over Native American sports team names, a linguist shows why we're so worked up about the power of words.
Same-sex marriage
Laurie Essig
I don't care if it is legal, I still think it's wrong -- and I'm a lesbian.
The smearing of “The Patriot”
David Horowitz
Anti-Americanism runs amok, again, and the left shows that nihilism is all that remains of its agenda.
The plot deepens
Charles Taylor
With her fourth Harry Potter book, J.K. Rowling takes her young hero to his darkest adventure yet.
Hell’s author
Deanne Stillman
Legendary badass biker Sonny Barger and his roaring Harley are burnin' up the highways on a ... uh ... book tour?
Feeling lonely?
John Leonard
A Harvard prof blames TV and boomers, but the real culprits are bowling hoodlums, beer and big business.
“Sunnyvale: The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family”
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A story of growing up in high tech's capital, by a man whose brother went mad and whose mom worked at Apple.
The leader of my pack was gay
Austin Bunn
Which was a good thing, because I was too. And in our small town, my scoutmaster was the only happy, normal model of gay manhood I had.
Lazio hits below the Beltway
Alicia Montgomery
The New York Republican slams Hillary Clinton as a national embarrassment.
They don’t buy it
Eric Boehlert
Baby boomers are purchasing more CDs than ever -- but not jazz or classical. Can these genres survive in an increasingly bottom-line business?
Let them eat Big Macs
David Downie
Will the unappetizing plans of McDonald's, the WTO and the European Union spoil classic French cuisine? Not if a 50-year-old dairy farmer from Roquefort can help it.
Harry Potter and the flight from reality
William Underhill
The young wizard's alma mater is a figment of J.K. Rowling's imagination -- but that hasn't stopped folks from signing up for boarding school.
One nation, under the weather
Lauren Slater
Stung by a pan in the New York Times, an "illness memoirist" defends her art.
Blue Girl’s blue period
Stephen Lemons
The bluest performance artist around has the paint-and-nipple market cornered.
“Trixie”
Andrew O'Hehir
Emily Watson is a malaprop-spouting security guard in Alan Rudolph's latest not-quite-a-movie.
Paulina Borsook to Eric Raymond: Don’t you Kakutani me!
Paulina Borsook
The author of "Cyberselfish" takes issue with Raymond's screed defending libertarian geek culture.
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