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Another Day in Paradise

Craig Seligman
Craig Seligman reviews 'Another Day in Paradise,' directed by Larry Clark.

The trickster president

Richard Goldstein
Clinton's enemies have made him a culture hero.

strap-on epiphany

Virginia Vitzthum
In becoming the penetrator, a woman learns to see sex - and the world - through male eyes.

Revolt of the elitists

James Poniewozik
Two new media studies amplify the death cries of the literate overclass.

Deep in the heart of Thailand, Texas

Roger Beaumont
Roger Beaumont writes about an expat watering hole called the Lonestar bar -- a raw and raucous slice of America deep in the heart of Bangkok.

The man without principles

James Poniewozik
The career of the great German cultural critic Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a case study in the virtues of intellectual inconsistency.

Revolt of the elitists

James Poniewozik
Two new media studies amplify the death cries of the literate overclass.

The man without principles

James Poniewozik
The career of the great German cultural critic Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a case study in the virtues of intellectual inconsistency.

Seven deadly sins: Saturday night fever

Mindy Hung
Stomach flu, a batch of pot brownies, and the 60's drug myth: why one woman can't seem to take any of it seriously.

Truth in advertising

James Poniewozik
Madison Avenue loves self-referential ads, sort of.

The Big Lie

Michael O'Donovan-Anderson
Why have today's students become a bunch of grade-grubbing morons?

Momcat

Anne Lamott

The war against sprawl, II

Susan Zakin
It's owls against developers in Arizona's Oro Valley.

We interrupt this impeachment

Joshua Micah Marshall
The president's refusal to grovel in the face of impeachment enrages his political opponents. He won't follow the Presidential Tragedy script.

Teaching the cannibals to dance: Part Two

Craig Nelson
Craig Nelson journeys farther than expected into a land of penis gourds and pig sacrifices.

The bento chronicles

Jane Singer
An expatriate mom in Japan learns that a dewhiskered Hello Kitty rice ball in her child's lunch could forever condemn her as a rotten mother.

Magazine racks

James Poniewozik
Do you like boobs a lot? Today's men's magazines and even some of the women's mags have something BIG for you.

The bull in the black-intelligentsia china shop

Amy Alexander
He calls Toni Morrison a fraud, afrocentrists "lost" and gangsta rappers "the scum of the Earth," but actually, critic Stanley Crouch is a sweetheart.

Chasin' The Devil's Music: Searching for the Blues

Tony Scherman
Tony Scherman reviews 'Chasin' the Devil's Music' by Gayle Dean Wardlow.

The Faculty

Charles Taylor
It may lack the emotional intensity of old-school horror flicks like "Carrie," but "The Faculty" is still bloody good fun.

The greatest degeneration

Sarah Vowell
Did the heroes of WWII really know what they were fighting for?

Ethics of the cross hairs

Andrew Leonard
On your computer screen, which is worse -- blasting an alien or shooting a deer?

Going Up

Laura Miller
"The Intuitionist" author Colson Whitehead talks about elevator codebooks, too many "Good Times" jokes and the lost legacy of the black intellectual novel

Joining the mod squad

Todd Levin
A gray-market "mod chip" supercharges a Sony PlayStation -- but how does it make you feel?
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