Examining culture and the arts.

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• Kong in Love The sexual politics of Peter Jackson's King Kong.
  Meghan O'Rourke Dec. 14, 2005
  
• The Lion King C.S. Lewis' Narnia isn't simply a Christian allegory.
  Meghan O'Rourke Dec. 9, 2005
  
• Marjorie Williams A journalist who made feminism matter.
  Meghan O'Rourke Nov. 9, 2005
  
• Theories of the Erotic Male traditionalists wring their hands at the "grim" lives of young women.
  Meghan O'Rourke Oct. 26, 2005
  
• It's a Jerk! Should men want to watch their wives give birth?
  Meghan O'Rourke Aug. 29, 2005
  
• Bret Easton Ellis The pleasures of Lunar Park.
  Meghan O'Rourke Aug. 22, 2005
  
• The Kite Runner Do I really have to read it?
  Meghan O'Rourke July 25, 2005
  
• I Celebrate Walt Michael Cunningham takes on Whitman in his new novel.
  Meghan O'Rourke June 7, 2005
  
• The Recluse Rescuing the poet Jack Gilbert from oblivion.
  Meghan O'Rourke May 9, 2005
  
• The Instruction Manual How to read John Ashbery.
  Meghan O'Rourke March 9, 2005
  
• Summers' School What the Harvard president learned from his critics.
  Meghan O'Rourke Feb. 20, 2005
  
• Don't Let Larry Summers Off the Hook Yet Why the Harvard president's tactless social science was a bad idea.
  Meghan O'Rourke Jan. 28, 2005