Cartoon Kit Contest: "Talk Show" Winners
2009-11-25 05:00:00
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The winning entries to the "Talk Show" Cartoon Kit Contest.
Vince Aletti: Bright Eye
2009-11-23 05:00:00
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The photographer Bruce Davidson is having a well-deserved moment. At the age of seventy-six, he has two exhibitions running concurrently, and a new, three-volume survey of his fifty-year career. The range, dedi...
Sarah Arvio: "Wood"
2009-11-23 05:00:00
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The last thing I ever wanted was to write again about grief did you think I would your grief this time not mine oh good grief enough is enough in my life that is enough was enough I had all those grievances all...
Philip Schultz: "The Big Sleep"
2009-11-23 05:00:00
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The only thing that consoles us for our miseries isdiversion, and yet it is the greatest of our miseries.—Pascal. On Turner Classic Movies Philip Marlowe is grimacing at the slinky beauty of the woman who will...
Mike Sacks: My Parents, Enid and Sal, Used to Be Porn Stars
2009-11-23 05:00:00
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ENID: Yes? May I help you? Why are you knocking on my front door? CHUCK: Ma’am, I work as a roof repairman. I just turned nineteen and I’m in terrific shape. It’s really hot out here and I am very thirsty. I...
Lauren Collins: Aureole
2009-11-23 05:00:00
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paragraph class="noindent">For the office workers of Times Square, whose after-work options have long been limited to ESPN Zone, Jimmy’s Corner, and places where the drinks are proper nouns, Aureole is a major...
John Lahr: Sarah Ruhl and "Finian's Rainbow" score.
2009-11-23 05:00:00
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In our pornographic age, it’s hard to imagine that there was a time when people were better acquainted with the continent of Africa than with their own bodies. Sarah Ruhl’s “In the Next Room or the Vibrator ...
Jeffrey Toobin: Post-Pizza
2009-11-23 05:00:00
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Sometime in the next few months, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four confederates will be indicted in Manhattan federal court, and the case will arrive at a turning point: the designation of the judge who will pres...
James Wood: The novels of Paul Auster.
2009-11-23 05:00:00
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Roger Phaedo had not spoken to anyone for ten years. He confined himself to his Brooklyn apartment, obsessively translating and retranslating the same short passage from Rousseau’s “Confessions.” A decade ea...
Hendrik Hertzberg: The Fifth War
2009-11-23 05:00:00
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In the sixty-four years since V-J Day, the United States has fought five wars big enough to be styled “major.” Two of these, Vietnam (1962-75, by the most common reckoning) and Iraq (2003-11, with any luck), ...