Out of Touch on ‘The OC’ Out of Touch on ‘The OC’
What makes Fox's The OC so addictive is its California-kissed story lines and appealing characters. But what is it about women the show doesn't understand?
Sep 14, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood
A Continent for the Taking A Continent for the Taking
What to make of The Constant Gardener, a movie focused on Europeans set in Africa, the return of Terry Gilliam and the New York City-set Keane?
Sep 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Memorial Chauvinism Memorial Chauvinism
The controversy over the World Trade Center cultural institutions is one more episode in a long, often bitter dispute over how 9/11 should be remembered and understood.
Sep 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Alisa Solomon
Kanye West, Unplugged Kanye West, Unplugged
NBC took offense when Kanye West took an unscripted swipe at President Bush during a benefit concert for hurricane victims. But somebody had to say it.
Sep 6, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Adam Howard
Tramps Like Us Tramps Like Us
Thirty summers ago, Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run exploded the cynicism and complacency of a morally exhausted era and gave a new generation reason to believe in rock and roll.
Sep 2, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
The American Sublime The American Sublime
Robert Smithson's epic earthwork, Spiral Jetty tends to render critics speechless.
Sep 1, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Requiem for a Dream Requiem for a Dream
Daniel Fuchs's The Golden West is best read as an author's requiem for the Hollywood he loved.
Sep 1, 2005 / Books & the Arts / David L. Ulin
‘The Constant Gardener’: What the Movie Missed ‘The Constant Gardener’: What the Movie Missed
As Big Pharma increasingly turns to the Third World to test its products, this lush film will spark outrage, but glosses over the constant vigilance necessary to police drug trials...
Aug 30, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Sonia Shah
Neighbors Neighbors
A trio of film reviews: Wall, Tony Takitani and Red Eye.
Aug 25, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Life Among the Neo-Pagans Life Among the Neo-Pagans
Our reporter visits a "a magickal, psychedelic & multi-cultural" forest outing and asks, Are New Age, Old Religion believers an endangered species in Born Again America?
Aug 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Paul Krassner