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“Tuff” by Paul Beatty
Hal Hinson
A comic novel about a 320-pound brother whose journey out of the 'hood includes sumo wrestling and a bizarre run for political office.
Toga parties
Michael Sragow
Rather stay home and get decadent watching videos than go see Ridley Scott's "Gladiator"? Here are five classical suggestions.
Teddy Kennedy's unsettling doppelg
Nicholas Confessore
Massachusetts Senate challenger has been accused of plagiarism, womanizing and leaving the scene of a car crash. And yet, he remains upbeat.
Cassandra complex
Brigitte Frase
Sven Birkerts says computers are destroying literature. He couldn't be more wrong.
Rushing to judgment
Sean Elder
Having nailed down exit poll data the same way Bush and Gore nailed down their nominations, the network anchors were free to opine smugly on Super Tuesday.
The empty man
Chris Lehmann
Is lots and lots of money all there is to George W. Bush? Molly Ivins says yes, Elizabeth Mitchell says no.
The ballad of Luther and Johnny
Sarah Vowell
In the jungles of Southeast Asia, 12-year-old twins lead a band of rebels. My twin sister and I got into trouble a lot, too.
Snubdance: The musical
David Goodman
The story is just like any other, except it's very cold. And people eat each other.
It's a boy's, boy's, boy's world (and a girl's)
Michael Sragow
"Liberty Heights" stars Ben Foster and Rebekah Johnson talk about race relations and "spilling seed" in Barry Levinson's latest look back at Baltimore.
Prime time online
Susan Kuchinskas
Jim Moloshok just launched the multimillion-dollar Entertaindom portal. Can he create the successor to network TV?
The best of all possible worlds
Mark Gimein
Dow at 36,000! No more cancer! The new techno-optimists gush about a picture-perfect future. Should we believe them?
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
If Pete Rose won't fess up, he shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame; why we're chicken-pox party parents.
Bye-bye beatnik
Jenn Shreve
Two unusual takes on Jack Kerouac's death and legacy. Plus: Viagra raves, zines that shouldn't exist and real-life Halloween scares.
“From Hell”
Curt Holman
Alan Moore, the Orson Welles of comics, delivers his darkest masterpiece yet.
Harsh realms
Joyce Millman
Fox's "Harsh Realm" sends a soldier into virtual hell, while CBS's "Now and Again" builds the new bionic man.
Tree girl has spawned!
Jenn Shreve
Young, PR-savvy idealists defend forests, Republicanism and dog food. Plus: Graphic sex writing is soooo 1995; Leonard Nimoy speaks Yiddish?
Stan Lee
Frank Houston
The father of Spider-Man and the Silver Surfer invented the modern
superhero, revived a dying industry and created a mythology.
Porn widow
Garrison Keillor
My husband says his four-hour-a-night, $200-a-month porn habit isn't affecting our marriage. I beg to differ.
Idea man
Jeff Stark
Flaming Lips front man Wayne Coyne believes in the thrill of wonder, the miracle of everyday life and the extraordinary sound in his head.
Prisoners of a crappy war
Anne Lamott
I don't regret protesting Vietnam, but "Return With Honor" has humbled me before the heroism of our military.
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