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Sound Salvation: Comically incorrect
Sarah Vowell
Chris Rock riffs on unfunny old themes--in "Roll With the New."
“Air Force One”
Charles Taylor
A review of the movie 'Air Force One,' directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman and Glenn Close.
living down beaver
Stephen Talbot
When you're trying to smash the state, it's painful to be reminded that you were once Gilbert to Jerry Mathers' Beaver on the TV show that defined white-bread suburbia.
Media Circus
Catherine Seipp
She's El Tacky Supremo, the one-woman train wreck who has single-handedly brought monstrous vulgarity back to Hollywood. Long live Demi Moore!
Tijuana Bibles
Susie Bright
The 'Tijuana Bibles,' America's original X-rated underground comics, evoke a time when sex was dirty, innocent, and handmade.
Tijuana Bibles
Art Spiegelman
Those Dirty Little Comics: By Art Spiegelman. The introduction to 'Tijuana Bibles: Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies, 1930s-1950s.'
Why liberals can't think straight about race
Jim Sleeper
Caught in a tortured dance of guilt and voyeurism, the right-thinking gatekeepers in the media and academia have perfected ways to avoid seeing the collapse of their racialist politics.
till death (literally) do us part
Dawn MacKeen
Louisiana's new covenant marriage law may discourage divorce -- but at what price?
Nothing to Lose
Laura Miller
The black-white buddy movie "Nothing to lose" is a lazy exercise in tired racial cliches.
Media Circus
Dwight Garner
"Ambush at Fort Bragg" is the first novella-length work by a major author ever to be published exclusively on audio. It's pretty damn good, too.
21st: Guardian angels of “Gay-OL”
Michael Joseph Gross
A grass-roots movement in AOL's gay chat rooms reminds people: Online anonymity doesn't grant free license to be a jerk -- and behind every screen name, there's a real heart.
The darkest side of John Wayne
Jonathan Lethem
The darkest side of John Wayne. The enduring power of America's favorite icon has nothing to do with politics -- and everything to do with sex, race and loneliness.
Playing the game
Jennie Yabroff
Neil Labute, director of "In the Company of Men," discusses his controversial new film about corporate and sexual cruelty.
21st: Be there now
Thomas J. Campanella
Cyberspace isn't just disembodied information.
Webcams, the Web's windows on the world,
knit the Net to the physical spaces we inhabit.
“Cold Mountain” diary: Road miles
Charles Frazier
Author Charles
Frazier recounts his travels, on a book tour for his first novel, "Cold
Mountain," through the American South.
London, England
Mary Elizabeth Williams
There's more to London than the Savoy and the Tate -- like erotic exhibitions, cappuccino shops and Dickens' commode.
Media Circus: True-Crime mags' corpse found stuffed under television set!
James Surowiecki
Bludgeoned by TV, books and their own voyeurism, the once-mighty true-crime magazines are bleeding to death in a cheap hotel room.
interracial adoption: One couple's story, part 2
Carol Lloyd, Hank Pellissier
Those who say love is colorblind never considered adopting a baby of a different race.
the bilingual trap
David Horowitz
Liberal do-gooder special language programs are
a new form of slavery for Latino immigrants. But the immigrants
are fighting back, and a new ballot initiative could
end bilingual education altogether.
a new form of slavery for Latino immigrants. But the immigrants
are fighting back, and a new ballot initiative could
end bilingual education altogether.
Who Owns Xena?
Andrew Leonard
On the Web, fans of the Warrior Princess have taken her places she
could never go on TV. And so far, the heroine's corporate owners
have let a thousand Xena story lines bloom online.
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