Arts, entertainment, and more.

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• Lawn Pox Children's play equipment and the decline of the American yard.
  Tom Vanderbilt May 2, 2008
  
• iHero Why Iron Man is like Steve Jobs.
  Grady Hendrix May 1, 2008
  
• The Sweet Smell of Success The mysterious art of writing about perfume.
  Jim Lewis April 30, 2008
  
• Mickey Mouse Operation Forget Miley Cyrus. Check out Disney's Chinese underwear ad.
  Daniel Brook April 29, 2008
  
• The Music Industry's Extortion Scheme The record labels want you to pay a tax on music. It's not as horrible as it sounds.
  Reihan Salam April 25, 2008
  
• Falling for Fall Out Boy Did the Roots just trick me into liking a lame emo band?
  Ben Mathis-Lilley April 24, 2008
  
• Save the Mount! Why Edith Wharton's house is an architectural treasure.
  Kate Bolick April 21, 2008
  
• Yo Mamma Hillary Clinton as the battleground in the war between mothers and daughters.
  Linda Hirshman April 18, 2008
  
• Why Don't Modern Poems Rhyme, Etc. Frequently asked questions about the business of verse.
  Robert Pinsky April 17, 2008
  
• Risky Businesses Are Ice Road Truckers and Ax Men as good as Deadliest Catch?
  Robert Weintraub April 15, 2008
  
• The Soiling of Old Glory The photograph that captured Boston's busing crisis: How it was taken, and why it still matters.
  Louis P. Masur April 10, 2008
  
• The Caped Crusader Frederic Wertham and the campaign against comic books.
  Jeet Heer April 4, 2008
  
• This Film Should Be Played Loud! What makes a great concert movie?
  Jonah Weiner April 3, 2008
  
• Monkey Business So is that Vogue cover racist or not?
  Wesley Morris March 31, 2008
  
• The Book of the Undead Why won't phone books die?
  Paul Collins March 21, 2008
  
• The Silda Spitzer Lesson Don't quit your day job.
  Linda Hirshman March 12, 2008
  
• Going Native Why do writers pretend to be Indians?
  David Treuer March 7, 2008
  
• Believe It or Not Memoir fabulists getting caught means the system is working.
  Ben Yagoda March 6, 2008
  
• The Fog of Memoir The feud over the truthfulness of Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone.
  Gabriel Sherman March 6, 2008
  
• Crying Wolf Why did it take so long for a far-fetched Holocaust memoir to be debunked?
  Blake Eskin Feb. 29, 2008
  
• My So-Called Internetlife How I launched the Web series quarterlife.
  Marshall Herskovitz Feb. 20, 2008
  
• The Impossible Art of Deciphering Manuscripts Robert Frost is hardly the first to give editors trouble.
  Megan Marshall Feb. 8, 2008
  
• The Shrink Rap At last, a realistic TV portrayal of psychotherapy: In Treatment.
  Glen Gabbard Jan. 28, 2008
  
• Way Up in the Sky What to read if you're afraid of flying.
  Inigo Thomas Jan. 23, 2008
  
• Who Is Grady Harp? Amazon's Top Reviewers and the fate of the literary amateur.
  Garth Risk Hallberg Jan. 22, 2008
  
• Class 4! OT-7! Platinum Meritorious! More Tom Cruise Scientology footage emerges.
  Troy Patterson Jan. 18, 2008
  
• Tom Cruise on Tom Cruise, Scientologist Watching the leaked recruitment video.
  Troy Patterson Jan. 17, 2008