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• The Year in Culture Neil LaBute, Lemony Snicket, Kenneth Pollack, and others on 2004's most notable cultural happenings.
  Dec. 30, 2004
  
• A Whitewashed Earthsea How the Sci Fi Channel wrecked my books.
  Ursula K. Le Guin Dec. 16, 2004
  
• The Other Women Pedro Almodóvar's transgender outlaws: A video slide show.
  June Thomas Dec. 13, 2004
  
• Free at Last! What Raúl Rivero's release from prison means for Cuba.
  Paul Berman Dec. 1, 2004
  
• Jerry's Kids Why the macho-movie producer abandoned Top Gun for kiddie pictures.
  Matt Feeney Nov. 30, 2004
  
• Is There a Doctor in the House? On Fox's new series, Hugh Laurie plays an implausible medical monster.
  Sherwin B. Nuland Nov. 30, 2004
  
• When Entourages Attack The Slate guide to managing your posse.
  Josh Levin Nov. 12, 2004
  
• Mosh or Die Eminem drops his shady act.
  Meghan O'Rourke Oct. 30, 2004
  
• Isaac Newton's Gravity How a major new exhibition gets the scientist wrong.
  James Gleick Oct. 21, 2004
  
• Lindy Flies Again The Plot Against America goes to Texas.
  Jim Lewis Oct. 20, 2004
  
• The Language Gap Why Middle Eastern linguists are hard to find, even though the government has been funding the field.
  Lee Smith Oct. 4, 2004
  
• The National Museum of Ben Nighthorse Campbell The Smithsonian's new travesty.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 29, 2004
  
• The Cult of Che Don't applaud The Motorcycle Diaries.
  Paul Berman Sept. 24, 2004
  
• Dead Like Her How Elisabeth Kübler-Ross went around the bend.
  Ron Rosenbaum Sept. 23, 2004
  
• Kornheiser, the Scrivener What's with all the sportswriters on sitcoms?
  Josh Levin Sept. 22, 2004
  
• Respek! How does Ali G keep conning famous guests?
  Sam Schechner Sept. 20, 2004
  
• Almost Famous The "celebrities" who love the GOP.
  Rob Long Aug. 27, 2004
  
• Village Idiot The case against M. Night Shyamalan.
  Michael Agger July 30, 2004
  
• Lover's Lair What are the most seductive spaces in history?
  YiLing Chen-Josephson July 28, 2004
  
• Chuck Norris As Himself The art of the ironic movie cameo.
  Adam Sternbergh July 15, 2004
  
• Science as Metaphor Where does Brian Greene stand in the pantheon of physicists?
  Amanda Schaffer July 6, 2004
  
• Summer Block Busters Why does every movie trailer end with a conk on the head?
  Josh Levin June 24, 2004
  
• Saved by the Ball How popular culture has gotten dodgeball all wrong.
  David Amsden June 21, 2004
  
• Marlowe in the Park The playwright who helped make Shakespeare.
  Adam Kirsch June 17, 2004
  
• The Father of Modernism What is a "multicultural" novel, anyway?
  Jim Lewis June 15, 2004
  
• The Late Bloomer How David Letterman became a sap.
  Bryan Curtis June 4, 2004
  
• How Widescreen Won The way we watch movies at home has changed. What happened?
  Bryan Curtis May 27, 2004
  
• Beyoncé, Your Mix Tape Sucks The perils of iTunes celebrity playlists.
  Dan Kois May 26, 2004
  
• Odd Man Out Tony Randall's characters existed in the gray zone between straight and gay.
  Dana Stevens May 20, 2004
  
• Brock Attack The formerly right-wing shark behind Media Matters.
  Laura Kipnis May 18, 2004
  
• Down the Stretch They Come Confessions of a child horse-racing addict.
  Meghan O'Rourke May 14, 2004
  
• The Seabiscuit Effect A new crop of racing books includes a lost classic.
  Eric Banks May 14, 2004
  
• The Many Faces of Helen How to find an actress who can launch a thousand ships.
  Julia Turner May 13, 2004
  
• Just Drop By How Friends became palatable after the ironies of Seinfeld.
  Caitlin Macy May 5, 2004
  
• Girl Talk Why I'm tired of the cautionary advice of books like The Bitch in the House.
  Meghan O'Rourke April 29, 2004
  
• You Have Choices I Never Had The new parenting problem.
  Barry Schwartz April 29, 2004
  
• Condi's Inner Life What Freudian slips do—or don't—tell us about politicians.
  Laura Kipnis April 26, 2004
  
• The Cinderella Complex What do modern fairy tales tell us about our culture?
  Jill Hunter Pellettieri April 23, 2004
  
• The Greatest Story Never Told Why Mel Gibson's next film project has to be The End.
  Alex Heard April 9, 2004
  
• Love Me, Love My Tantrums What happened to Courtney in the decade since Kurt Cobain's death?
  Amanda Fortini April 7, 2004
  
• Front Page Horror Should newspapers show us violent images from Iraq?
  Jim Lewis April 5, 2004
  
• Cruise Control The publicist behind the movie star.
  Adam Sternbergh April 5, 2004
  
• Average Jane NBC's boring girls in captivity.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 2, 2004
  
• Dead Run How did movie zombies get so fast?
  Josh Levin March 24, 2004
  
• Pinko in Pearls Spin Sisters'surprisingly radical takedown of women's magazines.
  Laura Kipnis March 23, 2004
  
• The Anxiety of (Sexual) Influence Are onetime "unwanted advances" really a feminist issue?
  Laura Kipnis March 19, 2004
  
• The Maiden Name Debate What's changed since the 1970s?
  Katie Roiphe March 16, 2004
  
• You Say You Want a Revolution From Bertolucci to the Beatles, 1968 is back.
  Ted Widmer March 9, 2004
  
• Dangerous Minds William F. Buckley soft-pedals the legacy of journalist Westbrook Pegler in The New Yorker.
  Diane McWhorter March 4, 2004
  
• Lights, Camera, Action A post-Oscars reflection on the state of American acting.
  Lee Siegel March 1, 2004
  
• Mistrial The Capturing the Friedmans DVD sheds new light on the case.
  Carl Takei Feb. 27, 2004
  
• Why Is The Passion of the Christ So Controversial? Why my mother, and Americans like her, loved the film.
  Robert Alter Feb. 26, 2004
  
• Crying Wolf Naomi Wolf sets back the fight against sexual harassment.
  Meghan O'Rourke Feb. 26, 2004
  
• Am I Exploiting My Nanny? Yes, men can do housework!
  Sara Mosle Feb. 17, 2004
  
• Breast for Success What's really behind the sex-sells antics on The Apprentice.
  Dahlia Lithwick Feb. 6, 2004
  
• Teen Spirit What was so important about the Beatles' appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show?
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 6, 2004
  
• Paradise Lite In heaven, you'll be thinner, happier, and smarter—or so Americans think.
  Adam Kirsch Feb. 5, 2004
  
• Hazy Conceptions Pro-choice activists are flummoxed by the high-tech baby-making industry.
  Liza Mundy Feb. 5, 2004
  
• Heavenly Dreck Why is airplane music so universally bad?
  August Kleinzahler Jan. 29, 2004
  
• The Devil Wears Pearls In recent movies, grooms across America flee their frigid fiancees.
  Adam Sternbergh Jan. 28, 2004
  
• Portraits of the Auteur What do Fellini's amateurish drawings tell us about his films?
  Nathaniel Rich Jan. 22, 2004
  
• Curator Rock Does the White Stripes' love affair with the past herald a new rock 'n' roll aesthetic?
  Alex Abramovich Jan. 19, 2004
  
• Sunset Strip Hollywood casts an unexpectedly realistic eye on aging womanhood.
  Mimi Swartz Jan. 5, 2004
  
• Class of '64 Reunion National Lampoon's sublime yearbook parody is back.
  Andrew Ferguson Jan. 2, 2004
  
• Off Limits Should students be allowed to hook up with professors?
  Laura Kipnis Jan. 2, 2004