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The camp-free “Behind the Candelabra”
Willa Paskin
Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic shows the famously flamboyant entertainer as a person, not a stereotype
White collar workers are exploited too
Kurt Newman
The E! "Fashion Police" writers strike highlights the need for unionization on all levels of labor
GOP creates Ted Cruz, now thinks he’s a jerk
Alex Pareene
The Tea Party's favorite senator is what happens when you care more about activist love than legislating
Here’s why dogs rule literature — but cats run the Web
Laura Miller
Why? It's not a question of cuteness. Cats are simply funnier than dogs, while dogs are more eager to please us
Literature isn’t as “moody” as it used to be
Tom Jacobs
A new study reveals that contemporary English-language books use less emotionally charged words than ever before
Why “Girls” got so dark
Willa Paskin
Season 2 wraps, as crazed and intense as (and perhaps reacting to) the show's most vitriolic critics
Where are the women Kerouacs?
Vanessa Veselka
What male writers' dominance of the travel writing genre says about women's place in American society
HBO, please renew “Enlightened”!
Jane Hu
Although it has yet to be picked up for a third season, the cable dramedy is one of the bravest series on TV
Trashing Sheryl Sandberg
Joan Walsh
The Facebook exec’s feminist critics seem to say that if you can’t solve everyone’s problems, don’t solve anyone’s
Conservatism’s “friendly face” is an old-school homophobe
Elon Green
You may not know the name Rod Dreher, but you will
When the Internet was for strangers
Adrian Chen
Facebook has degraded our friendships, but do online relationships have to be limited to "Catfish"-like scenarios?
Teach for America’s hidden curriculum
Andrew Hartman
The history of TFA reveals the ironies of contemporary education reform, class inequality and the liberal agenda
Naked if I want to: Lena Dunham’s body politic
Soraya Roberts
Critics can't stop cringing, but the "Girls" star's prolific nudity harks to a decades-old feminist art tradition
Cissy Houston will never be a PFLAG parent
Kera Bolonik
Oprah gets Whitney Houston's mother to open up, and can't quite believe what she hears
Technology should make us optimistic
Anna Blundy, The Browser
Author Matt Ridley's favorite books on technologies that make the world a better place
Out of the ash, Sylvia Plath’s legend rises anew
Emma Garman
On the 50th anniversary of "The Bell Jar" and Plath's suicide, two biographies resurrect the debate of culpability
L. Ron Hubbard’s great-grandson: Scientology is a brainwashing “cult”
Alex Kane
Jamie DeWolf blasts the religion his family founded to Current TV's Cenk Uygar
I am named in a terrible book
Cary Tennis
I let an author stay in my house and he published ridiculous things about me
“Django Unchained’s” secret political triumph
Samuel Sattin
It's been pilloried for trivializing American slavery. What matters is that it's got people talking about race
Parting with a TV show is such sweet sorrow
Joe Winkler
"Seinfeld" broke every sitcom convention, including the series finale. Can "30 Rock" and "The Office" do the same?
“Girls”: Can this friendship be saved?
Elissa Schappell
"Girls'" Hannah and Marnie had one of the rawest, most brutal BFF fights depicted on TV. They'll survive. I think
Why can Limbaugh speak, but not Costas?
David Sirota
Conservatives get outraged when a celebrity talks politics, as long as it's not one of their "expert" entertainers
Liz Lemon’s happy ending
Willa Paskin
Liz gets married on "30 Rock" tonight. Should we celebrate, or mourn a traditional end for a quirky feminist?
Positive thinking is for suckers!
Oliver Burkeman
Self-help books don't work. Sex, family and work are stressful. Maybe we need to look at happiness in a new light
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