Bestseller Hell By Jon Carroll
We read 'em so you don't have to: Jon Carroll ponders the best way to read "Babyhood" by TV star Paul Reiser
(12/24/97)
Merry fiction to all! By Laura Miller
The New Yorker's new fiction issue is a like a Christmas stocking full of good, familiar candy
(12/23/97)
Totally naked book wrestling
By David Futrelle
Pregnant lesbian strippers and unrepentant impotent bigamists debate the classics on Jerry Springer's Book Club!
(12/22/97)
The Freudian flack
By Catherine Seipp
Eccentric superpublicist Michael Levine's media dinners are the hottest ticket in town
(12/19/97)
Not just for wonks anymore By Jonathan Broder
New owner David Bradley has lured journalistic stars into his National Journal
(12/18/97)
Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
Manna from Condé Nast: Editors serve religious pap at holiday time
(12/17/97)
Genteel readers of the world, dig deep By Albert Mobilio
The Levenger catalog rolls out the full-grain La Paz leather pencil cases for bookworms with a taste for the finer things
(12/16/97)
Smoke gets in your eyes
By Janelle Brown
Care for a little nicotine with your content? R.J. Reynolds makes a weird alliance with the hip new Sweater magazine
(12/15/97)
Author-free writing
By Benjamin Marcus
Interactive nitwits replace authors in new collaborative writing ventures
(12/12/97)
Run for cover! By David Handelman
Vanity Fair to Interview: My cover girl is even less well known than yours
(12/11/97)
Gangsta athletes, anxious whites By Gary Kamiya
The Latrell Sprewell case may signal the collapse of America's last
racial utopia -- sports
(12/10/97)
Confessions of an undercover drink fink By Michelle Goldberg
The squishy derrière of advertising has plunked itself down on a barstool near you
(12/09/97)
Cindy Sherman
By Glen Helfand
From dream girl to nightmare alley
(12/08/97)
Queen of the dish rags
By Catherine Seipp
Movieline is the buttered popcorn of film magazines -- good to the last yummy, vaguely nauseating morsel
(12/05/97)
Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
Future crock: Wired has seen the democracy of tomorrow -- and it belongs to that putz on the cell phone
(12/04/97)
Black tarantula By Richard Kadrey
The glamorous life and uncompromising death of Kathy Acker
(12/03/97)
The man who wrote the century By Laura Johnston
At home with Eddie Ellis, the greatest diarist of all time
(12/02/97)
Popcorn is served
By James Surowiecki
Reserved seating comes to the movies
(12/01/97)
Armchair pundits to Clinton: Bring us the head of Saddam
Hussein! By Eric Alterman
Pundits slobber for head of Saddam
(11/26/97)
Going for gold By Inda Schaenen
Women's sports magazines duel over a hot and growing target demographic
(11/25/97)
The Washington Post in decline By Harry Jaffe
Under its stiff new management team, the Washington Post loses its luster and many of its star reporters
(11/24/97)
Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
Star properties: O.J. house on the market
(11/21/97)
Big bucks for old books By Dwight Garner
With this year's National Book Award, Charles Frazier wins -- and so do book collectors
(11/20/97)
Under the covers By James Poniewozik
Holiday food mags push turkey porn
(11/19/97)
Sex with the perfect stranger By James Surowiecki
A sex magazine for perfect strangers -- men and women
(11/18/97)
Wow! It fits in a box! By Daniel Radosh
Old media's dumb-as-a-post gushing over new media conceals a secret disdain
(11/17/97)
Buy buy love By David Futrelle
The robb report for the affluent lifestyle brings back the avarice,the ostentation,the sheer
(11/14/97)
Doing the right-wing shuffle By Eric Alterman
Conservative journalists come and conservative journalists go, but one thing remains constant: Those free market-exalters just love to suck on the foundation money tit
(11/13/97)
Jane's affliction By Lisa Jervis
Vaunted hip-chick mag just another fashion victim
(11/12/97)
No soup for you! By Dwight Garner
The triumph of the Soup Nazi and a revised version of "The Joy of Cooking" have foodies asking: Is home cooking finished?
(11/11/97)
Pox populi By James Ledbetter
As long as presidents appoint its rulers, public broadcasting will remain a hopeless mess
(11/10/97)
Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
Standing room only in the mad-at-me section: Why is everyone I've betrayed in print so mad at me?
(11/07/97)
An apple for my teacher By Rebecca Ransom
All I really need to know I learned in high school from Robert Fulghum
(11/06/97)
Under the covers By James Poniewozik
Vice grip: Shiny, ad-stuffed smoking and gambling rags exhort their readers to follow the Seven Deadly Sins path to fulfillment
(11/05/97)
Gandhi was no pitchman By Bill McKibben
Apple clicked on the wrong icon for its "Think Different" ad campaign
(11/04/97)
Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
Whipping boy to the stars: Celebrity biographer Frank Sanello suffers the wrath of Sharon Stone, Tom Cruise, Eddie Murphy and -- worst of all -- their lawyers
(11/03/97)
Publish and perish By Morgan Cast
Overqualified and grotesquely underpaid, publishing industry serfs labor for love -- or something other than money
(10/31/97)
Workers of the Web, delight By Andrew Leonard
For "word people," the new media boom means a rare chance to make a real buck
(10/30/97)
Gabillions and kazillions By Cynthia Joyce
The small screen equals big bucks for the writers and producers behind hit TV programs
(10/29/97)
The scoop on newsroom salaries By Lori Leibovich
Newspaper people gripe vocally but keep their paychecks off the record
(10/28/97)
Is Anna Wintour really worth a million bucks? By Deborah Mitchell
In the world of glossy New York magazines, the rich get richer and the poor get a dollar a word
(10/27/97)
Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
Kick me -- I'm a freelancer: But first, please do fill me in on all your wonderful story ideas
(10/24/97)
It's Giuliani's Times! By Jackie Stevens
The New York Times' mayoral coverage is colored by a double standard
(10/23/97)
The grapes of tourism By Jenn Shreve
As a high-tech new Steinbeck museum is constructed in Salinas, Calif., the author -- who loathed his hometown -- is probably spinning in his grave
(10/22/97)
How to succeed in media by being a clueless right-wing babe By Eric Alterman
So what if she can't think straight? Conservative pin-up Laura Ingraham gives good sound bite
(10/21/97)
Under the covers By James Poniewozik
Life looks back, the New Yorker looks ahead and New Woman looks at Jimmy Smits' ass: our new magazine roundup
(10/20/97)
Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
Goodbye, SC3: The departure of wishy-washy editor Shelby Coffey III completes a top-down housecleaning at the Los Angeles Times
(10/17/97)
Peccadilloes of the rich and infamous By Dick Lochte
Remembering Harold Robbins, the king of softcore
(10/16/97)
Is Kevin Spacey gay? Who cares? Esquire readers! By James Surowiecki
The men's mag's nudge-nudge piece drags the actor in and out of the closet like a vacuum cleaner
(10/15/97)
Che and Diana: The shocking untold story By Arthur Allen
In a book proposal for his autobiography, Cuba's maximum leader Fidel Castro outs his brother, calls Robert Kennedy a "complete fool" and compares Che Guevara to Princess Diana
(10/14/97)
Sy-fi? By Eric Alterman
Official Washington chortles over legendary reporter Seymour Hersh's troubles with Camelot. But Hersh may have the last laugh
(10/13/97)
Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
Humble pie -- hold the anchovies: Alec Mapa went from Broadway glory to slinging pepperoni -- and back
(10/10/97)
Brokaw shucks By Michelle Goldberg
The preternaturally cheerful NBC anchor smiles and jives his way through a feel-good session at Berkeley
(10/09/97)
Have a coke and a simile By J.B. Miller
Product placement comes to the novel
(10/08/97)
Get your bodice-ripping hands off my genre! By Tracy Jones
There hasn't been a heaving bosom in a decent romance novel for years -- but there has been plenty of guilt-free, female-friendly sex. Maybe that's why men keep bashing romances
(10/07/97)
Follow that jock! By James Surowiecki
GQ made hay on Dan Marino and Andre Agassi. Now, men's-mags rivals Details and Esquire are hoping that beefed-up sports coverage will put them in the end zone
(10/06/97)
Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
"Variety" is not the spice of life: Film industry's star reporter quits, fed up with trade rag's sleazy ethics
(10/03/97)
With "education" like this, who needs infomercials? By Alyssa Katz
Thanks to the new FCC guidelines mandating more educational TV, kids have learned essential facts -- like the NBA is really cool and always to watch for spies when leaving the house
(10/02/97)
Sex and the single credit card By Chris Haines
With the reissuing of "Valley of the Dolls," the great unsung genre of the late 20th century -- the Shopping and Fucking Novel -- finally gets some respect
(10/01/97)
Media moguls destroy civilization -- more at 10! By James Poniewozik
Turner's $1 billion pledge to the U.N. leads Murdoch to retaliate -- nuclear winter settles over Earth -- stocks up sharply
(09/30/97)
Of all the Nerve! By Inda Schaenen
Nerve magazine brings literary smut -- and a refreshing willingness to deal with sexual failure -- to the Web
(09/29/97)
Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
What journalists really think of the people they interview
(09/26/97)
Bestseller Hell By Jon Carroll
"The Gift of Fear" offers real, usable advice for real, threatening situations
(09/25/97)
Black and white and red and green and blue all over By Jim Lewis
Why oh why did the Good Gray New York Times decide to tart itself up with McColor?
(09/23/97)
Racist -- or realistic? By Joyce Millman
Steven Bochco's hard-hitting "Brooklyn South" is still one step ahead of the headlines. But is he fanning the flames of American prejudice?
(09/22/97)
Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
The amazing rise of Captain Crunch: Derided as a Visigoth cereal magnate, Mark Willes has slimmed, trimmed and invigorated the all-too-comfy L.A. Times
(09/19/97)
Star chamber By David Futrelle
How to save the Russian space program and MTV's "The Real World" -- at the same time!
(09/18/97)
Dedicated swallower of fashion By James Surowiecki
If you can get out of the way of the chortling supermodels and the Manchurian Candidate outerware, Vogue's 730-page fall fashion issue ain't half bad
(09/17/97)
Bottom feeders of the world contrite! By Andrew Brown
British tabloids have nothing to lose but their shame -- and maybe their circulation
(09/16/97)
You're a voyeur, I'm a voyeur By Dwight Garner
A new exhibition shows how paparazzi photographs simultaneously create celebrity and desecrate it
(09/15/97)
Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
The guilty pleasures of Parade, Reader's Digest and Sunset
(09/12/97)
A macabre sporting event By Steven D. Stark
Why funerals play so well on TV
(09/11/97)
New York Daily News to Pete Hamill: Drop dead By Eric Alterman
Legendary newsman brutally axed by tabloid! Mort Zuckerman falls back into journalistic gutter! Pix, story page 3!
(09/10/97)
A New Yorker to Di for By James Poniewozik
As William Shawn turns leisurely in his grave, Tina Brown rushes Diana issue to press
(09/09/97)
Requiem for a pop princess By Joyce Millman
From a child's note to a brother's anger to a friend's song, Diana's funeral was a pageant of feelings.
Plus: Another one bites the dust By Jonathan Broder
Michael Kelly was the second New Republic editor in less than a year. After being unceremoniously dumped by owner Martin Peretz on Friday, Kelly and his former boss have gone public with their sharp disagreements
(09/08/97)
Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
I will kill you, Mr. Bond. But first, let me ramble on about my criminal prowess while you kick me in the face
(09/05/97)
The ethics of photojournalism By Alexander Cockburn
Everybody's trashing the paparazzi. But for even legendary photojournalists, moral ambiguity comes with the territory
Plus: Making book on Diana By Dwight Garner
Publishers scramble to capitalize on the public's insatiable demand for prose about the princess
(09/04/97)
Full metal skillet By James Poniewozik
With screaming macho-man Emeril playing lead radicchio, the Food Network is cashing in on the dudes-who-wanna-cook audience
(09/03/97
Spy vs. Spy By James Surowiecki
Can the late, great satiric monthly reinvent itself after so many fallow years?
(09/02/97
Libel suit tests the limits of freewheeling Net speech
By Jonathan Broder
Should AOL be held legally responsible for its "take-no-prisoners" columnist?
(08/29/97
Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
She's El Tacky Supremo, the one-woman train wreck who has single-handedly brought monstrous vulgarity back to Hollywood. Long live Demi Moore!
(08/22/97
Geo, graphic By David Futrelle
An immodest proposal for the venerable National Geographic: Bring back topless savages!
(08/21/97)
Tina Brown's love-in By James Poniewozik
Double sex issue melts down the New Yorker
(08/20/97
The New York Slimes By Jonathan Broder
How the New York Times got an inflammatory quote wrong -- big time
(08/19/97
Reefer madness By Cynthia Cotts
Reporters were apparently too stoned to question two hopelessly flawed studies "proving" that marijuana is a gateway to heroin
(08/18/97
Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
The loneliness of the schlock writer
(08/15/97
Tom Wolfe on tape: An audio oddity's odyssey By Dwight Garner
"Ambush at Fort Bragg" is the first novella-length work by a major author ever to be published exclusively on audio. It's pretty damn good, too
(08/14/97
If it's Wednesday, a black film must be opening By James Surowiecki
Fearful of audience violence, movie execs have stopped opening "urban" films on Friday. But what qualifies as an "urban" film?
(08/13/97)
What's Up, dike? By David Rakoff
Why should John Updike be the only writer who gets to begin Amazon.com's collaborative story?
(08/12/97)
Why I love CNBC By Joe Lavin
Boring unknown men with squeaky voices, experts making things up, anchors who just met five minutes ago. This channel rocks!
(08/11/97
Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
Why do I hate women's mags and their horrific editors? Because I just really, really feel that way
(08/08/97)
New York magazine to Jews: You're finished By Seth Gitell
A slow summer leads a city magazine to cry wolf
(08/07/97)
Anatomy of a cancellation By Virginia Heffernan
How MSNBC's "Edgewise" went over the edge
(08/06/97)
True-Crime mags' corpse found stuffed under television set! By James Surowiecki
Bludgeoned by TV, books and their own voyeurism, the once-mighty true-crime magazines are bleeding to death in a cheap hotel room
(08/05/97)
Blurb torture By Matt Marinovich
Vaginal pears and iron maidens are child's play compared to the dreaded job of a family Web site copy editor
(08/04/97)
Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
Tinseltown orgies just aren't what they used to be
(08/01/97)
Confessions of a real-time TV addict By Jim Paul
From shots of deflated airbags on Mars to a camera aimed at Mt. Fuji, live-feed television reminds us that the real world is the best show on the air
(07/31/97)
Do babes sell books? By Lee Smith
In the cutthroat publishing biz, a pretty face on the cover is worth a thousand blurbs
(07/30/97)
All About Mensch By David Futrelle
Forget Cosmopolitan's special issue "All About Men" -- let some other mags profile their ideal bachelors
(07/29/97)
State killing: America's newest spectator sport? By Andrew L. Shapiro
Should the whole country get to watch Timothy McVeigh be put to death?
(07/28/97)
Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
When it's their turn to be written about, media honchos believe that turnabout is NOT fair play
(07/25/97)
Beating the paper of record By Mark Lasswell
The nimble Wall Street Journal consistently scoops the New York Times -- and it has the figures to prove it
(07/24/97)
America's best unknown radio show By Julia Barton
The thief who wiped his butt on fudge-colored towels, and other tales from "This American Life"
(07/23/97)
Gazongas slathered in unctuous prose By James Poniewozik
A furtive read of Esquire's 10th "Women We Love" issue begs the question: Who's this "we"?
(07/22/97)
Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
Living next door to the stars has the average Angeleno anything but dazzled
(07/18/97)
Gianni, we hardly knew ye By Andrew Brown
Britain's press mourns the mind-boggling talents of the man who gave them celebrity Page Three girls
(07/17/97)
Self promotion By Dominic Patten
Shooting up in funny places and other British literary hi-jinx
(07/16/97)
Book, line and sinker By James M. Surowiecki
Honey, I shrunk the book list
(07/15/97)
Let the dogs bark By David Futrelle
The quite-possibly true story of a human guinea pig who bit the hand that drew his blood
(07/14/97)
Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
The best inside-Hollywood book of the decade
(07/11/97)
Warning: This article may be very arousing By Jack Hitt
Our sex tapes, ourselves
(07/10/97)
Brave Blue world By Michael Soller
Design guru David Carson leaps into the adventure-lifestyle arena with Blue, the magazine for hipsters with abs (and eyes) of steel
(07/09/97)
Attack of the celebrity vacuum-cleaner-salesman ghouls By Leora Broydo
As Fred Astaire (d. 1987) can attest, it's never too late to sell a dirt devil!
(07/08/97)
The empire strikes back by David Futrelle
Is the U.S. military turning against the U.S.?
(07/04/97)
Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
The hellish existence of the Hollywood assistant
(07/03/97)
Dewar's: Because old farts need a real drink By James Poniewozik
The Dewar's Man has grown up -- ick
(07/02/97)
Russian tanks invade Tokyo! See page C-32 By Martha Ann Overland
Foreign news is vanishing from American media
(07/01/97)
I'm ready for my money shot, Mr. DeMille By Charles Taylor
Adult Video News: Hollywood dish at its bluest and best
(06/30/97)
Information, please! By David Futrelle
We're drowning in a sea of facts
(06/27/97)
Remembering Michael Dorris By James Surowiecki
The late writer's friends defend him
(06/26/97)
Sentenced to death By Christopher Hitchens
If you can understand these tortured, indecipherable examples of "transgressive" academic writing, you're driving too close
(06/25/97)
The New York Times' reefer madness By Daniel Radosh
In a shocking article, the newspaper of record reveals that many Net users are deviating from officially mandated Just Say No drug rhetoric!
(06/24/97)
Think-tank warfare By David Shenk
"Crossfire" turns 15 -- enough already!
(06/23/97)
Drink the latte! Buy the book! By Rob Spillman
Oprah caffeinates the book biz
(06/20/97)
Murdoch knows best By James Surowiecki
Rupert Murdoch buys Pat Robertson's fundamentalist family cable network, uniting Bart Simpson with John-Boy Walton at last
(06/19/97)
The really big picture By Randolph Heard
Billion dollar summer pic to buoy sinking studios
(06/18/97)
Victor's secret By Bill Hayes
Guys in garters
(06/17/97)
Who's sorry now? By David Futrelle
David Brock, a right-wing sleazemonger, comes clean at last. Well, sort of clean. Here's the dirt
(06/16/97)
Not so Pacific at Pacifica By Eyal Press
Is once-radical Pacifica Radio becoming NPR Lite?
(06/13/97)
A heart, a brain and a good pair of shoes by Samuel G. Freedman
With the passing of J. Anthony Lukas, journalism has lost one of its giants
(06/12/97)
Pitons are served By Deborah Mitchell
After last year's Mount Everest tragedy, Sandy Hill Pittman has become the socialite everyone loves to hate -- again
(06/26/97)
Paige Dearest By Catherine Seipp
The Grand Dame editor of Architectural Digest, Paige Rense, pens a glitzy trash novel -- and any resemblance to her own rocky, unglamorous past is strictly unintentional.
(06/10/97)
Been there, zine that By David Futrelle
A rash of new zine-inspired books has tattooed 20-year-olds screaming bloody sell-out
(06/09/97)
Moore is less By Daniel Radosh
He's loudmouthed, self-serving and not funny. So why does the left need Michael Moore?
(06/06/97)
Swampy fever sweeps nation By Catherine Caufield
Brits swoon over scraggly-haired eco-warrior
(06/05/97)
Bookend By David Futrelle
Dodging Pamela Anderson Lee autobiographies and "Soul Aerobics" workouts at BookExpo, the tastes-great-less-filling successor to the late, unlamented ABA convention
(06/04/97)
Microsoft bites the Big Apple By Sean Elder
Redmond's new Sidewalk New York is off to a decent start. But do New Yorkers really need Bill Gates to tell them where to get Chinese food?
(06/03/97)
Hollywoodland By Catherine Seipp
Hollywood's last closet: When will Ellen act her age?
(06/02/97)
The CIA-crack story: Anatomy of a journalistic train wreck By Thomas Hackett
Why did top editors at the San Jose Mercury News sign off on a wildly controversial series of articles -- then denounce them as hopelessly flawed? And why is reporter Gary Webb still on the story?
(05/30/97)
Mickey mice unite! By Bruce Shapiro
Disney's $700 million man, Michael Eisner, puts the squeeze on workers at home while his Mom 'n' apple-pie company tosses workers 6 cents an hour abroad
(05/29/97)
Got it all, will juggle By Inda Schaenan
Cosmo's repulsive new I-CAN-have-it-all editor
(05/28/97)
Heroin today, gone tomorrow By David Futrelle
The strung-out look may have passed its prime, but there are plenty of unhealthy lifestyles left for the fashion world to glamorize!
(05/24/97)
Everything you ever wanted to know about Thomas Pynchon, Danielle Steel, Cormac McCarthy... By Dwight Garner
A map to the online homes of the literary stars
(05/23/97)
Coming soon to your TV: The violence channel By Michael Dickstein
Must-bleed TV: The new Violence Channel
(05/22/97)
There's no bad news By David Futrelle
Where have you gone, apocalyptic ranters? We're being overrun with cheer
(05/21/97)
Turning personal failure into a big book By Mark Lasswell
Slick prof makes layoff pay off: the story of Don Snyder and "The Cliff Walk."
(05/20/97)
My minivan, myself By Inda Schaenan
Don't drive on me: Mini-van moms unite to fight NYT trend story!
(05/19/97)
$600,000 an episode, and worth every penny By Joyce Millman
"Seinfeld's" characters aren't yuppies -- they're babies. Long may they drool
(05/16/97)
And now, a turd from our sponsor By Dwight Garner
Anti-Clios: N.Y. snoots trash TV ads
(05/15/97)
Will the real Charles Grodin please go crazy again? By G. Beato
The most weirdly explosive man on TV has been quiet lately. Too quiet
(05/14/97)
Scot on the rocks By Sara Baird
"Trainspotting" author's ecstasy-fueled book tour
(05/13/97)
Raw figures By Chip Rowe
Playboy crunches the numbers on its model population.
(05/12/97)
The bore war By David Futrelle
Pundits whine: "We're so b-o-o-r-e-d"
(05/09/97)
All Hitler, all the time By Mark Schone
Adolf Hitler: The ultimate cable guy
(05/08/97)
The last gentleman columnist By Chris Lehmann
Murray Kempton: Journalism's last gentleman
(05/07/97)
<a href=“Idiotic”> By Scott Rosenberg
Ticketmaster vs. Microsoft: Link lunacy
(05/06/97)
Anchor away By David Futrelle
When Chicago's NBC affiliate added talk-show potentate Jerry "I Slept With My Boyfriend's Brother!" Springer to the evening news, longtime anchor Carol Marin bolted for the door. But sleazo daytime-show hosts have a lot more in common with local TV news readers than either would like to admit
(05/05/97)
Champagne socialists of the world, unite! By Vivienne Walt
Tina Brown celebrates Labor Victory
Plus: "World's Scariest Police Chases"
(05/02/97)
Cheeky monkey By Sara Baird
Mike Myers on his bum and "Austin Powers"
Plus: Taps for Mike Royko
(05/01/97)
The other woman By Laura Miller
Have you stopped fantasizing about Anne Heche since she came out?
(04/30/97)
The case for closeted stars By Bill Hayes
Ellen was more fun in the closet
(04/29/97)
Gravity's end By David L. Ulin
The paranoia-inducing hype surrounding Thomas Pynchon's new novel could have sprung from the convoluted mind of the author himself.
(04/25/97)
Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the old TV By Joyce Millman
America held hostage by anti-television zealots!
(04/24/97)
Failing upwards By Jeff Wise
The charmed lives of media big shots
(04/23/97)
USA yesterday By Liza Featherstone
Neither picketing Teamsters nor historical complexity can disturb the cheerful facade of the Newseum, the just-opened news museum brought to us by the same folks who gave us USA Today. Our correspondent brings back a report from the Wonderful World of Neuharth
(04/22/97)
Shack attack! By Gary Kamiya and Jenn Shreve
Radio Shack tells Bianca's Smut Shack to shack off
(04/21/97)
Crawling through Heaven's Gate, one page at a time By David Futrelle
How quickie books can cure your unhealthy news obsessions
(04/18/97)
Apres Sports Illustrated, le deluge By Simon Houpt
Swimsuit issue as cultural imperialism: Canada declares war on U.S. mags
(04/16/97)
What color is your alternative? By Larry Smith
You can complain all you want about sellouts, but some of the best alternative culture our country has to offer is bought and paid for by The Man
(04/16/97)
Clone rangers By David Futrelle
While the rest of the world has moved beyond last month's cloning madness, a number of gay writers and activists have seized on Cloning Rights as the next big crusade. They're wasting their time
(04/15/97)
Cynic city By Chris Lehmann
The supposedly hard-boiled press decries public cynicism. It ought to embrace it
(04/14/97)
Only disconnect By G. Beato
Who are the "MSNBC Contributors," those cheerful junior pundits popping up every few minutes on the network's endless daytime show? And why won't they answer my e-mail?
(04/11/97)
"Kiss" summit By Dwight Garner
"The Kiss" memoir summit: No tongue action
(04/10/97)
Vole reversal By Liza Featherstone
Birdbrains: Newsweek's weird science
(04/09/97)
Son of Mad By David Futrelle
Alfred E. Neuman is worried: Mad magazine's makeover
(04/08/97)
Rating for Godot By Cynthia Joyce
Secrets and lies: How a Nielsen family sabotaged the TV ratings
(04/07/97)
Digital Christmas By Jennifer Nix
The great digital TV giveaway
(04/04/97)
I sold my baby for a blurb By Cameron Stracher
A writer's desperation
(04/03/97)
My dinner with ron By Nick Ravo
Porno the Hedgehog: Corpulent, hairy skinflick star tries to go legit
(04/02/97)
Living large By Etelka Lehoczky
Size queens: Mode celebrates flesh, and lots of it
(04/01/97)
"Giovanni's Gift" By Carl Swanson
Did too much hype kill this novel? Plus: A response from Bradford Morrow
(03/31/97)
How strange were they? By David Futrelle
Heaven's Gate: Not that weird?
(03/28/97)
Desperately Seeking God By Jenn Shreve
Why are the newsweeklies, Slate, and that noted theological journal, TV Guide, all putting the Supreme Deity on their covers? It must be Easter!
(03/27/97)
Pledged to Death By Charles Taylor
Why NPR pledge week has become one of the most painful and embarrassing spectacles on radio
(03/26/97)
Animal Magnetism By Robin Dougherty
Why cute little puppies and big ugly alligators may soon be taking overyour television set
(03/25/97)
Show me the potty! By Ann Hodgman
Why people never pee in movies
(03/24/97)
Billy Bob goes Hollywood By Jennie Yabroff
"Sling Blade" director trashes beret-wearing indie filmmakers
(03/21/97)
Just say techno by Gavin McNett
Rock critics slobber over techno
(03/20/97)
Traitor to his class By Julia Barton
Business press flays George Soros for tweaking capitalism
(03/19/97)
Brit press in sex pest love nest By David Futrelle
The sordid charms of the Daily Telegraph
(03/18/97)
The Gray Lady goes grunge By Jacques Leslie
The N.Y. Times Magazine loses its dignity
(03/17/97)
Martha Stewart's perfect world By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Stewart's plan for world domination moves into its final phase
(03/14/97)
No scandals, please. We're Americans By David Futrelle
The public's exasperation with media coverage of the White House fund-raising scandals keeps growing. Now it's the press itself that's complaining
(03/13/97)
Just say no ...to reality By Jennifer Nix
ABC thinks it's doing the world a favor. But has the network committed itself to a month of worse-than-useless anti-drug propaganda?
(03/12/97)
Bacon Bits By Sara Kelly
Philly's shame: Cracked-bell city honors "auteur" Kevin Bacon
(03/11/97)
"Daria" vs. "Jenny McCarthy" By Joyce Millman
Sarcastic teen 'toon is more lifelike than banal big-chested babe
(03/10/97)
Return of the 50-foot pointy-heads By Gary Kamiya
Unabomber victim David Gelernter trashes intellectuals for being ...intellectuals
(03/07/97)
Going for bloke By G. Beato
Lame British men's magazines invade our newsstands
(03/06/97)
Spinning out of control By David Futrelle
Did Timothy McVeigh really confess to the Oklahoma City bombing?
(03/05/97)
Libel Labyrinth By Todd Woody
Once the Net makes everyone a publisher, does everyone have to worry about being sued for libel?
(03/04/97)
Rumble in the Outhouse By Cathy Young
Idiotic "Flynt" debate rages on
(03/03/97)
Spin City, part II By Chris Lehmann
The N.Y. Times gets all gooey on Stephanopoulos
(02/28/97)
Television to drink by By Jenn Shreve
Ogle the hooters, pound the brew
(02/27/97)
Radio off By Julia Barton
Why American radio really, truly sucks
(02/26/97)
Indecent exposures By Etelka Lehoczky
Here's to Howard Stern, hero of the insulted and pissed off
(02/25/97)
Franny and Zoey By G. Beato
Literary Godfather: Francis Coppola's new magazine
(02/24/97)
Esquire blows it By Dwight Garner
Literary editor Will Blythe quits after the men's mag finds a steamy story by gay writer David Leavitt too hot to handle
Plus: Mia Myself and I By Stephanie Zacharek
Mia Farrow's new book shows very little of the anger you'd expect from someone who discovered the love of her life schtupping her daughter
(02/21/97)
Money for nothing By David Futrelle
A courageous plan to rid our country of a dire threat to our health and well-being: surplus celebrities
(02/20/97)
Miss Manners, up yours! By Jenn Shreve
The original rules girl thinks she can teach us a thing or two about online etiquette. She needs to RTFM first
(02/19/97)
Mon Dieu, dude! By Chris Lehmann
Ennui, torpor, and an astonishing lack of joie de vivre. What France needs is a good dose of Left Coast wisdom
(02/18/97)
Just say Noam By Kaitlin Quistgaard
The world's most important intellectual is a hit with people who don't even like to read
(02/17/97)
The devil made me do it By David Futrelle
Drunken parties, pentagrams and heavy metal headbanging: a typical American suburb in 1986? Nope, Cairo in 1997
(02/14/97)
Dearly parted By Jenn Shreve
Unsure what to give your snuggle-bunny on the most romantic day of the year? How about a subscription to Divorce Magazine?
(02/13/97)
Rock this town By Julia Barton
NBC destroys Dallas -- U.S. cheers
(02/12/97)
Voice over? By Sally Eckhoff
Village idiots? The latest turmoil at the Voice
(02/11/97)
Correctional Facility By David Futrelle
What you can learn from the "corrections" columns in newspapers.
(02/10/97)
Bubblegum Thatcherism By Stephanie Zacharek
The Spice Girls' reactionary pop
(02/07/97)
Sect Appeal By Scott McLemee
Family feud in the Trotskyist publishing empire
(02/06/97)
Life after O.J. By Joyce Millman
O.J. verdict: Forget race -- justice finally wins
Plus: Deadline poet By Gary Kamiya
The death of newspaper legend Herb Caen
(02/05/97)
Hillary's milquetoast "Rosie" turn By Robin Dougherty
When will the first lady stop playing goody-goody?
(02/04/97)
Two cheers for the tabloids By David Futrelle
CBS wimps out on Bill Cosby's adultery confession
(02/03/97)
Friday January 31, 1997: Diet biz muckraker on why undercover reporting is lurid — and necessary.
Thursday January 30, 1997: Book biz blues: Do readers really care about Spike Lee's Knicks fetish?
Wednesday January 29, 1997: Theater Wars: A live report from NY's Wilson-Brustein faceoff.
Tuesday January 28, 1997: Mars Attacks: Ludicrous New York stage debut of bestselling hack John Gray.
Monday January 27, 1997: Excuses, excuses: Why Americans keep forgiving politicians' peccadilloes.
Friday January 24, 1997: The cult of MSNBC's Soledad O'Brien: A million horny geeks can't be wrong.
Thursday January 23, 1997: Johnny Cochran's TV show: If it sucks, you must still pay him bucks.
Tuesday January 21, 1997: Is Rodman's well-aimed kick worse than Oksana's DUI bust?
Monday January 20, 1997: They're back! J.D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon crawl out from shells.
Friday January 17, 1997: All the wrong movies: Why Firefly gets your taste dead wrong.
Thursday January 16, 1997: Good news from First Bullshit Bank: Your money is working for us!!
Wednesday January 15, 1997: PC Pirates: Gluttony replaces lust at Disney's Magic Kingdom.
Tuesday January 14, 1997: Poison PEN? New York writers club torn by charges of censorship.
Monday January 13, 1997: As "The Loser" turns: The best soap opera on the Web.
Friday January 10, 1997: The marketing of Jackie: How Chan became (pow!) an all-American boy.
Thursday January 9, 1997: Sahl it ain't so: The toothless inanities of "Politically Incorrect".
Wednesday January 8, 1997: Thunder on the right: Are Packers more American than Cowboys?
Tuesday January 7, 1997: We bombed in Las Vegas: America's war on kitsch monuments.
Monday January 6, 1997: Wired News: The renegades join the media mainstream.