Examining culture and the arts.

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• Precocious Realism Is Marisha Pessl's debut one of the best books of the year?
  Meghan O'Rourke Dec. 7, 2006
  
• Single-Sex Ed 101 Welcome to the latest educational fad.
  Meghan O'Rourke Nov. 15, 2006
  
• The Accidental Feminist Arianna Huffington's fears.
  Meghan O'Rourke Sept. 22, 2006
  
• A Working Girl Can Win The case against staying at home with the kids.
  Meghan O'Rourke June 26, 2006
  
• Casual Perfection Why did the publication of Elizabeth Bishop's drafts cause an uproar?
  Meghan O'Rourke June 13, 2006
  
• Debating the Best American Fiction In praise of "small" novels.
  Meghan O'Rourke May 21, 2006
  
• The Moussaoui Sentence How the would-be terrorist avoided death.
  Meghan O'Rourke May 5, 2006
  
• The Virginia Quarterly Review The literary dark horse.
  Meghan O'Rourke March 17, 2006
  
• Desperate Feminist Wives Why wanting equality makes women unhappy.
  Meghan O'Rourke March 7, 2006
  
• The Brief History of the Dead An apocalyptic new book by a young novelist.
  Meghan O'Rourke Feb. 22, 2006
  
• Reality Bites Do disclaimers give memoirists license to invent?
  Meghan O'Rourke Feb. 7, 2006
  
• James Frey and JT LeRoy Lying writers and the readers who love them.
  Meghan O'Rourke Jan. 13, 2006
  
• Patti Smith, Meet Sylvia Plath Rock stars who write poems.
  Meghan O'Rourke Jan. 11, 2006