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In Which Her Good Skin Says It All
Carriage Ride by DURGA CHEW-BOSE Of Manhattan’s 96 minutes, 25 of them swap comedy for candor and the veneer of midlife fitfulness for a snowy and plainspoken 17-year-old Dalton girl named Tracy....
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In Which We Are Back In Nigeria Now
photo by Femi Adagunodo Return to Lagos by SARATU ABIOLA I have come back to Nigeria many times, but not like this. Usually it's after a month or two away after a summer in somewhere, bracing myself...
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In Which The Beetles Will Feed On Your Eyes
Don't Let Me Down by DICK CHENEY Everything tends towards catastrophe and collapse. I am interested, geared up and happy. Is it not horrible to be made like this? - Winston Churchill There is nothing...
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In Which Woody Allen Ruins The Left Bank
Without Wonder by KARA VANDERBIJL Midnight in Paris dir. Woody Allen 100 minutes Midnight in Paris captures the reverberating warmth of the only place in the world that meets all of your expectations...
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In Which Strange Birds Flock To Remote Marshes
Dry Season by RACHEL MONROE 1 For most of December, it was 45 degrees inside our house, and I only took off my long underwear to get in the shower. Even then, the few bare-legged seconds were...
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In Which We Are Unable To Copy Her Melancholy
Cut Off Shorts, High Top Converse by ALICE GREGORY My Girl dir. Howard Zieff 102 minutes It took great restraint, watching My Girl last weekend, not to mouth along to all the dialogue. I was a little...
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In Which You Go And Tie A String Around Us
Believable by ALEX CARNEVALE God gave Italian-Americans The Godfather and Frank Sinatra, the Irish community Good Will Hunting and Jack Donaghy, and the Armenian community the Kardashians. The U.S....
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In Which We Try To Penetrate The Mystery That Is Me
Love Is The Death Of Beauty by DICK CHENEY We look at death from the selfish side, like, "That guy died. Oh, it's so sad." Why is it sad? He's away from all of this bad stuff that's here on Earth. I...
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In Which It's Called The Western Canon For A Reason
The Classics by ELLEN COPPERFIELD When I started my current job, the first days were much like this, but then circumstances improved. I owe it all to my boss, who is nothing like those individuals...
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In Which James Schuyler Demands So Little Of Us
James Schuyler, Calais, Vermont, late 1960s; photograph by Joe Brainard A Beautiful Intensity of Focus James Schuyler overcame a horrifying childhood (he described it as out of "a novel by...
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In Which We Take Notes On The Important Parts
Those Marble Composition Books by DURGA CHEW-BOSE On that first date we fell asleep watching Bottle Rocket. The poem ended one line after as I described his tissue paper thin t-shirt that I borrowed...
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In Which The Guy Wanted To Save Felicity
A Sign of Submission by ALEX CARNEVALE Super 8 dir. J.J. Abrams 112 minutes You come down over the trees, you see the stars, and suddenly you think you're in space – wow, you’re not, you're in a...
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In Which This Is No Place For A Picnic
At All Costs, Stifle My Natural,Hideous Laughter by SUMEJA TULIC People from postwar countries are like children from broken homes or people with a birth mark or a fire stain, you are never just who...
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In Which We Find You Something To Read This Summer
Summer Reading by JANE HU This is the first in a series. Middlemarch by George Eliot I know. You're thinking, "Duh." I know. But I had not read Middlemarch until this summer. It always loomed before...
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In Which Pauline Kael Finds Something To Be Happy About
Her Triumph Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider. Reading the reviews of Pauline Kael is a pleasure not only because of how often she was right (except with Blade Runner), in retrospect,...
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In Which We Spend The Year In China
Letter from Beijing by JOANNA SWAN In 1985, 1.4 million tourists came to the Middle Kingdom, perhaps curious to see how Deng Xiaoping's Beijing Spring was moving forward, or how red the East actually...
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In Which Books Are The Natural Analog To Summer
Summer Reading by BARBARA GALLETLY I love the summer, love simply being warm and nearly naked amongst tons of strangers, and I love the moment I fall into the first wave and lose my breath in cold...
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In Which We Have A Peaceful Easy Summer Reading
Summer Reading by DAYNA EVANS I have a rule during the summer: Never leave the house without a bathing suit and a book. You can never really know when you'll find yourself by water, with nothing to...
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In Which We Watch Her Hands For Clues
Cheating on Keira Knightley by TRACY WAN Last Night dir. Massy Tadjedin 90 minutes In many ways, Massy Tadjedin's Last Night is an exercise in how to make cheating look like the right thing to do....
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In Which Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall
The Dying Mirth by DICK CHENEY Who has it better, gays in New York or television critics? I spent the last three hours digesting the second season of Showtime's The Real L Word. I now know more about...
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