An Actor's Journal - Fuddy Meers
/The smell of sawdust, misplaced props, shouts about lights: Steve Brachmann reports on a play going up and the ways in which several real people play their parts.
Read MoreA Real Island
/For a season, Maurice Sendak’s iconic Wild Things have become specifically what Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze want them to be … but what is that? Janet Potter goes out to meet them.
Read MoreSeger Unsettled
/Midwest Rock icon Bob Seger’s former tour manager gives us a behind the scenes look at old time rock & roll; John G. Rodwan, Jr. turns the page.
Read MoreThe Word Made Full-Figured
/Counter-culture icon R. Crumb has produced an illustrated version of the Book of Genesis—sincere tribute, or sacrilege? Brad Jones adjudicates.
Read MoreConfessions of an Armchair Dictator
/Tropico 3 tempts its players to become petty, manipulative tyrants; Phillip A. Lobo will permit you (unworthy though you are) of reading his musings on the game.
Read MoreThorns Too
/In A Vindication of Love, Christina Nehring has set herself the task of reclaiming romantic love for the Twitter Age. Ingrid Norton rates the results.
Read MoreMailer’s Victory
/Norman Mailer fought about writers and wrote about fighters, and even after his death, the brawling continues. John G. Rodwan, Jr. enters the ring.
Read MorePrince of a Lost Realm
/He ruled the world of Sunday comics with a singing sword and a grin. He was Prince Valiant, and Fantagraphics lets him fight again. Steve Donoghue goes blow-by-blow.
Read MorePhotography Album and Q&A with Michael George
/Open Letters talks shop with cover photographer Michael George
Read MoreThe French Food Connection
/Julia Child is all the rage: a new movie (Julie & Julia) and a couple of related books (My Life in France and the gastronomically-inclined Gourmet’s Rhapsody), etc. Sharon Fulton samples the wares.
Read MoreA First-Class Sport
/The noble sport of fisticuffs has done more than a little for cops, kids, and US Presidents. So why is touching the gloves so widely maligned? John G. Rodwan, Jr. steps in the ring to find out.
Read MoreReview of I Love You, Beth Cooper
/In her review of the movie I Love You, Beth Cooper, Sarah Hudson shares her thoughts on the highs and deep lows of the adolescent rom-com
Read MoreGlory at Half Price
/Larry Tye has written a book about the greatest, longest baseball career to date; Brad Jones benches the Babe and tallies up Satchel.
Read MoreWho the Hell is Lili St. Cyr?
/Carl Van Doren called her “the princess who takes off her pants,” but who was Gypsy Rose Lee, really? Kindly let Michael Adams entertain you in looking at two recent biographies.
Read MoreMarimo Balls, Midnight Sun, and the Water of Life
/Quick: What’s Iceland like? Faint idea? Marc Vincenz reassures—your knowledge of Japan will do just fine.
Read MoreThat Old Bryn Mawr Accent
/Their cinematic pairings are the stuff of movie legend, but do their movies stand the test of time? Sarah Hudson takes in the films of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.
Read MoreReview of Shakespeare and Elizabeth
/Garrett Handley reviews Helen Hackett's "Shakespeare and Elizabeth": "Luckily, in the hybridity which governs this book, the fun always wins out."
Read MoreSan Francisco: 1972
/An excerpt from Edmund White’s forthcoming memoir City Boy
Read MoreGrovely! Grovely! Grovely! and all Grovely!
/The late Roger Deakin celebrates his beloved trees one last time in Wildwood, and Bryn Haworth gladly finds himself within a dark forest.
Read MoreThe Crowing of Corncrakes
/The Decemberists seem benign enough, but their songs are blood-dimmed with rape, drownings, and even cannibalism. The body count rises on their new release The Hazards of Love, but Lianne Habinek also discovers fresh wellsprings of feeling.
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