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“More Songs About Buildings and Food”
Paul A. Toth
It's 1978, and a band of Manhattan art-school geeks called Talking Heads teams with Brian Eno to produce the funkiest nervous-breakdown record ever made.
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A deliberately awful vanity press novel and more of our favorite new books.
Real Life Rock Top 10
Greil Marcus
Yes to the Bible, no to the treaty
Michelle Goldberg
Worldwide, 169 countries have signed a treaty to ban forced marriage and mandate equal access to education for women. Now Christian-right allies of President Bush call it a threat to Mother's Day.
Waiting desperately for a plan
Ferry Biedermann
In the aftermath of new Middle East violence, tensions have risen and hopes have all but collapsed. Now both Israelis and Palestinians are looking to Washington for answers.
I’m ready for my close-up, Sen. Daschle
Anthony York
A leading FBI critic with her own theories about post-9/11 anthrax attacks makes a quiet visit to Capitol Hill.
Airplanes don’t get no respect
Patrick Smith
The glamour of the jet age is gone, and that's a shame. It's time to bring back the wonder.
Complete sexual anarchy
Douglas Cruickshank
The Cockettes exuded the optimism, playfulness, sexiness and theatricality of a subculture that slipped away almost as soon as it was born. (With a gallery of photographs by Robert Altman.)
“Prague” by Arthur Phillips
Laura Miller
A group of young, American would-be bohemians congregates in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, vainly hoping to land in the center of something legendary.
“The Russian Debutante’s Handbook” by Gary Shteyngart
Laura Miller
A Russian-born nebbish joins the mafiya and finds success swindling gullible young American tourists in Eastern Europe.
Closed doors, closed minds
David Horowitz
If you don't believe American campuses are dominated by the left, try finding a registered Republican teaching in the social sciences.
The battle for indie radio
Jesse Walker
After seven years of bitter infighting, the dissidents have retaken control of Pacifica, the venerable left-wing radio network. Now comes the hard part.
The dragnet comes up empty
Eric Boehlert
In the aftermath of Sept. 11, law enforcement agents detained more than 1,000 people, mostly Middle Eastern-born men. Some were held for weeks without an attorney. Some were virtually convicted in the press. But none have been implicated in terrorism.
Can semen cure the blues?
Martin F. Downs
A researcher says male ejaculate may act as an antidepressant -- but other scientists aren't swallowing his theory.
Before Baghdad burns
Laura Miller
The author of a new book on Iraq cautions that a U.S. invasion to get rid of Saddam Hussein could be even more dangerous than his weapons of mass destruction.
Playing God
Scott Anderson
Bush's bioethics czar Leon Kass wants to criminalize lifesaving medical research as violating the natural order of things. Would he have opposed wiping out smallpox?
Every dial you take
Jeffrey Benner
The FBI is asking for more information about what you do on the phone, and no one is saying no.
Advice is like coleslaw
Cary Tennis
My lover turns to his old girlfriend for relationship advice even though it hurts my feelings.
Keeping the new black candidates down
Jake Tapper
When young African-American challengers face off against their trailblazing predecessors, they often get called pawns of whitey.
“Unmasking Deep Throat”
Scott Rosenberg
John Dean, on a decades-long quest to identify history's most elusive news source, brings new evidence to the fore in his new book.
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A gem-studded collection of short stories from Esquire and more of our favorite new titles.
Who wants to marry a regular person?
Carina Chocano
In Michael Apted's sad, hopeful and deeply moving new documentary series on marriage in America," "I do" isn't a happy ending -- but rather an uncertain beginning.
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