Examining culture and the arts.

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• Katherine Heigl's Knocked Up The demise of the female slacker.
  Meghan O'Rourke Dec. 11, 2007
  
• Crying Wolf Susan Faludi's terrible dream.
  Meghan O'Rourke Nov. 19, 2007
  
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Questions for Junot Díaz.
  Meghan O'Rourke Nov. 8, 2007
  
• Wrinkles in Time Rereading Madeleine L'Engle.
  Meghan O'Rourke Sept. 20, 2007
  
• On the Road Again Friends and scholars recall the man behind the myth of Jack Kerouac.
  Meghan O'Rourke Sept. 4, 2007
  
• Shall I Compare Thee to an Evil Tyrant? The poetry of Guantanamo.
  Meghan O'Rourke Aug. 20, 2007
  
• The Croc Epidemic How a heinous synthetic shoe conquered the world.
  Meghan O'Rourke July 13, 2007
  
• Sleuth at Work The strange case of Nancy Drew's self-confidence.
  Meghan O'Rourke June 30, 2007
  
• The Lady Is a Champ When fillies beat the colts at Belmont.
  Meghan O'Rourke June 11, 2007
  
• The Second Coming What Yeats is doing on The Sopranos.
  Meghan O'Rourke May 31, 2007
  
• Recovering the Disappeared How do you memorialize people who vanish?
  Meghan O'Rourke May 17, 2007
  
• I Love You, Let's Have a Blowout Doing time in the wedding-industrial complex.
  Meghan O'Rourke May 5, 2007
  
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt A hard-boiled romantic in bloom.
  Meghan O'Rourke April 6, 2007
  
• Renaissance Man Questions for Clive James.
  Meghan O'Rourke March 14, 2007
  
• Hell Is Other Cubicles Joshua Ferris' new novel about work, the great American pastime.
  Meghan O'Rourke March 8, 2007
  
• In Defense of "Loose" Women The latest crisis on college campuses.
  Meghan O'Rourke Feb. 20, 2007
  
• The Queen and I Questions for Stephen Frears.
  Meghan O'Rourke Feb. 8, 2007
  
• The Incisive Moment Henri Cartier-Bresson at work.
  Meghan O'Rourke Feb. 2, 2007
  
• Dakota Fanning All shook up over Hounddog.
  Meghan O'Rourke Jan. 24, 2007
  
• A Pessimist in Flower The love songs of Thomas Hardy.
  Meghan O'Rourke Jan. 18, 2007
  
• The Copycat Syndrome Plagiarists at work.
  Meghan O'Rourke Jan. 11, 2007