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• The Year in Culture Stanley Crouch, Azar Nafisi, Michael Pollan, and others on the most amazing—and disappointing—events of 2006.
  Dec. 29, 2006
  
• The Power and Glory of the Rocky Montage A video slide show.
  Josh Levin Dec. 21, 2006
  
• Is James Bond Responsible for the Iraq War? How the Middle East really got shaken and stirred.
  Richard Cohen Dec. 1, 2006
  
• Pawn of the Neocons? The debate over Reading Lolita in Tehran.
  Gideon Lewis-Kraus Nov. 30, 2006
  
• It Ain't Easy Being Green Are green magazine covers really "death on newsstands"?
  Julia Turner Nov. 22, 2006
  
• Dead Plagiarists Society Will Google Book Search uncover long-buried literary crimes?
  Paul Collins Nov. 21, 2006
  
• Where Do Hiltons Come From? A new tell-all tries to explain.
  Troy Patterson Nov. 17, 2006
  
• Jay-Z Versus the Sample Troll The shady one-man corporation that's destroying hip-hop.
  Tim Wu Nov. 16, 2006
  
• The Critic's Notebook The dancing on Dancing With the Stars isn't that bad.
  Brian Seibert Nov. 15, 2006
  
• Dancing Fool Telling moments in Michael Jackson's greatest videos.
  Seth Stevenson Nov. 14, 2006
  
• Arbus in Furs How Fur mythologizes the iconic photographer.
  Mia Fineman Nov. 10, 2006
  
• Not Very Nice The Borat movie: They botched the joke.
  Ron Rosenbaum Nov. 3, 2006
  
• The White Wonder Has the iPod really sparked a revolution?
  Michael Agger Oct. 25, 2006
  
• Can Studio 60 Be Saved? Aaron Sorkin's sermonizing sketch comedy.
  Dan Kois Oct. 23, 2006
  
• Battlestar: Iraqtica Does the hit television show support the Iraqi insurgency?
  Spencer Ackerman Oct. 13, 2006
  
• Scott Pilgrim's Progress A brilliant indie-rock cartoon.
  Dan Kois Oct. 10, 2006
  
• Dirty Pictures Why the graphic sex in Destricted is more than porn.
  Jim Lewis Sept. 25, 2006
  
• Stop Them Before They Joke Again Why does everyone try to be funny these days?
  Peter Hyman Sept. 19, 2006
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter Slate's handy guide to small talk.
  Doree Shafrir Sept. 15, 2006
  
• I Took That 9/11 Photo Photographer Thomas Hoepker on Frank Rich's column, and why he thought his picture was too "confusing" to publish in 2001.
  Thomas Hoepker Sept. 14, 2006
  
• It's Me in That 9/11 Photo Walter Sipser was in that picture Frank Rich wrote about. Here's what he thinks of Rich's column.
  Sept. 13, 2006
  
• Frank Rich Is Wrong About That 9/11 Photograph Those New Yorkers weren't relaxing!
  David Plotz Sept. 12, 2006
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter Slate's handy guide to small talk.
  Doree Shafrir Sept. 8, 2006
  
• Has Art Helped You Make Sense of 9/11? Harold Bloom, Hanif Kureishi, Jane Smiley, and others respond.
  Sept. 7, 2006
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter Slate's handy guide to small talk.
  Doree Shafrir Aug. 25, 2006
  
• The Trainspotters of Google Earth What happens when the Internet and geography collide.
  Michael Agger Aug. 25, 2006
  
• Hurricane, Remembered Memoirs by teenagers who survived Hurricane Katrina.
  Aug. 24, 2006
  
• Hurricane, Remembered Memoirs by teenagers who survived Katrina.
  Aug. 22, 2006
  
• Little Miss Sunshine America's obsession with JonBenet Ramsey.
  James R. Kincaid Aug. 21, 2006
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter Slate's handy guide to small talk.
  Doree Shafrir Aug. 18, 2006
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter Slate's handy guide to small talk.
  Doree Shafrir Aug. 11, 2006
  
• The 9/11 Report A graphic adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón.
  Ernie Colón Aug. 8, 2006
  
• Animal Grouse What's wrong with The Ant Bully and Barnyard.
  Jill Hunter Pellettieri Aug. 4, 2006
  
• "I Remember My First Beer, Too" The art of trash-talking in online poker.
  Jacob Lewis Aug. 3, 2006
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter Slate's handy guide to small talk.
  Doree Shafrir July 28, 2006
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter Slate's handy guide to small talk.
  Doree Shafrir July 21, 2006
  
• The Pynchon Post: Part 2 In which we reveal the title of his new novel.
  Troy Patterson July 20, 2006
  
• I See Good Movies In defense of M. Night Shyamalan.
  Ross Douthat July 20, 2006
  
• The Pynchon Post Did the master make an appearance on his Amazon page?
  Troy Patterson July 19, 2006
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter Slate's handy guide to small talk.
  Doree Shafrir July 14, 2006
  
• Oh. My. God. The winners of Slate's Unidentifiable Wedding Gifts Contest.
  Dahlia Lithwick July 7, 2006
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter Slate's handy guide to small talk.
  July 7, 2006
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter Slate's handy guide to small talk.
  June 30, 2006
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter Slate's handy guide to small talk.
  June 23, 2006
  
• I Love It. What Is It? Slate's Unidentifiable Wedding Gift Contest.
  Dahlia Lithwick June 22, 2006
  
• Brooklyn's Trojan Horse What's wrong with the buildings Frank Gehry wants to put in my neighborhood?
  Jonathan Lethem June 19, 2006
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter Slate's handy guide to small talk.
  June 16, 2006
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter Slate's handy guide to small talk.
  June 9, 2006
  
• Breakups by the Book The curious popularity of guides for the brokenhearted.
  Julia Turner June 2, 2006
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter Slate's handy guide to small talk.
  June 2, 2006
  
• It Takes a Horse How America became obsessed with Barbaro.
  Meghan O'Rourke June 1, 2006
  
• Pregnant Pause What's the real story behind Elizabeth Vargas' departure from World News Tonight?
  Dahlia Lithwick May 25, 2006
  
• Ask Mr. Science The moral flaws of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.
  Gregg Easterbrook May 24, 2006
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter Slate's handy guide to small talk.
  May 19, 2006
  
• Is Tyra Banks Racist? The peculiar politics of America's Next Top Model.
  J.E. Dahl May 18, 2006
  
• Dear Wes Anderson Why does it take you so long to make a movie?
  Armond White May 15, 2006
  
• What Are Independent Bookstores Really Good For? Not much.
  Tyler Cowen May 15, 2006
  
• J.J. Abrams, Self-Plagiarist How the Mission: Impossible III director recycles all his best tricks.
  Julia Turner May 9, 2006
  
• You May Now Film the Bride The appalling New York Times "Vows" videos.
  Troy Patterson May 5, 2006
  
• Hijacking the Hijacking The problem with the United 93 films.
  Ron Rosenbaum April 27, 2006
  
• I Coulda Been a Pretender How I didn't end up like that Harvard sophomore accused of plagiarizing her novel.
  John Barlow April 26, 2006
  
• Dissed in Verse The art of the poetic insult.
  Robert Pinsky April 26, 2006
  
• This Is My Last Entry Why I shut down my blog.
  Sarah Hepola April 19, 2006
  
• Michiko Kakutani A critic with a fixation.
  Ben Yagoda April 10, 2006
  
• United 93 A brief Slate debate about the controversial new movie.
  June Thomas April 6, 2006
  
• "Do It, Already!" TV couples that take forever to hook up.
  Kate Aurthur April 4, 2006
  
• Pellicano, My Muse Did Hollywood lawyer Bert Fields reveal too much in his novels?
  Jill Hunter Pellettieri April 3, 2006
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter Slate's handy guide to small talk.
  March 31, 2006
  
• Who Cries for Cargo? The death of the men's shopping magazine.
  Michael Agger March 30, 2006
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter Slate's handy guide to small talk.
  March 24, 2006
  
• Little People, Big World Will TLC's new reality show change our perception of dwarfs?
  Dan Kennedy March 24, 2006
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter Slate's handy guide to small talk.
  March 17, 2006
  
• Is Whole Foods Wholesome? The dark secrets of the organic-food movement.
  Field Maloney March 17, 2006
  
• Ireland's "Crack" Habit Explaining the faux Irish pub revolution.
  Austin Kelley March 16, 2006
  
• Holy Grail Wars The latest battle over The Da Vinci Code.
  Tim Wu March 13, 2006
  
• Boy Meets Girl, Then More Girls HBO's Big Love and the stuffy side of polygamy.
  Daphne Merkin March 10, 2006
  
• Brothers-in-Arts The unique talent that links Fred Astaire and Louis Armstrong.
  Stanley Crouch Feb. 23, 2006
  
• School of Hard Knocks What President Summers never learned about Harvard.
  James Traub Feb. 22, 2006
  
• Valentine's Day Poetry Love isn't always pretty.
  Robert Pinsky Feb. 8, 2006
  
• The Novelist Walks Why did Turkey drop the charges against Orhan Pamuk?
  Hugh Eakin Jan. 24, 2006
  
• Below the Beltway Dog Days, Wonkette's shallow roman à clef.
  Toby Young Jan. 21, 2006
  
• Picking Up the Pieces How James Frey flunked rehab, and why his fakery matters.
  Seth Mnookin Jan. 12, 2006
  
• The Year in Culture Judd Apatow, Noah Baumbach, Curtis Sittenfeld, and others on 2005's most notable cultural happenings.
  Jan. 6, 2006
  
• Ticket Tweaking How do Hollywood box-office estimates work?
  Gabriel Snyder Jan. 2, 2006