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• Bigger, Louder, More Frogs How Paul Thomas Anderson sets himself apart from Hollywood's other wunderkinds.
  Dennis Lim Dec. 24, 2007
  
• Smoke Screens How Hollywood really made cigarettes cool.
  David Segal Dec. 11, 2007
  
• The Man Who Did It All Or so he'd have you believe. Does Hitchcock get too much credit?
  Juliet Lapidos Dec. 4, 2007
  
• Sucker Punch The art, the poetry, the idiocy of YouTube street fights.
  Carlo Rotella Nov. 26, 2007
  
• Is That a Microphone in My Pocket? When rock show banter goes wrong.
  James Parker Nov. 23, 2007
  
• Into the "Wild" How a film and an essay reflect our changed ideas about nature.
  Evan Eisenberg Nov. 19, 2007
  
• I Love the Smell of Celluloid in the Morning Why are all the Iraq movies really movies about making movies?
  Jessica Winter Nov. 16, 2007
  
• Terror's Advocate A weirdly nonjudgmental movie about a lawyer who never met a terrorist he wouldn't defend.
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 1, 2007
  
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Torturers Why the Saw movies are perfect for middle managers.
  Grady Hendrix Oct. 26, 2007
  
• Ben Affleck's Boston His portrait of the city is far from perfect—but at least it's not wicked bad.
  Patrick Radden Keefe Oct. 22, 2007
  
• Tyler Perry's Secret to Success He makes movies for audiences everyone else ignores.
  Wesley Morris Oct. 22, 2007
  
• The Trouble With Indie Rock It's not just race. It's class.
  Carl Wilson Oct. 18, 2007
  
• What's Wrong With The Office A Slate diagnosis.
  Oct. 18, 2007
  
• Six Dylans Are Better Than One How to make a pop-music biopic that doesn't stink.
  Jessica Winter Oct. 10, 2007
  
• My Kid Could Paint That Does Marla Olmstead's work belong in a museum or on the fridge?
  Mia Fineman Oct. 5, 2007
  
• The Father of All Memoirs What Edmund Gosse could teach today's memoirists.
  Ben Yagoda Oct. 1, 2007
  
• Unbearable Whiteness That queasy feeling you get when watching a Wes Anderson movie.
  Jonah Weiner Sept. 27, 2007
  
• Psalm Springs How I translated the Bible's most poetic book.
  Robert Alter Sept. 26, 2007
  
• Mess MoCA An artist and a museum fight over a work of art.
  Christopher Benfey Sept. 25, 2007
  
• Killer Films Why the new vigilante movies are a lot like the old vigilante movies.
  Eric Lichtenfeld Sept. 13, 2007
  
• Enormous Changes in Very Small Spaces Grace Paley's greatness.
  Jess Row Sept. 7, 2007
  
• Not So Stellar What Star Jones doesn't get about women, TV, and women who watch TV.
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 5, 2007
  
• Don't Drink the Balloon Juice Good, bad, and ugly things to name your blog.
  Michael Weiss Aug. 7, 2007
  
• See Jane Elope Why are we so obsessed with Jane Austen's love life?
  Deidre Lynch Aug. 3, 2007
  
• Attack of the Slummy Mummy A new novel praises the barely competent mom.
  Katie Roiphe July 31, 2007
  
• The E Decade Was I right about the dangers of the Internet in 1997?
  David Shenk July 25, 2007
  
• Peeking at Potter Is it wrong to skip to the end of a book?
  Juliet Lapidos July 20, 2007
  
• The Lost Generation Who's not reading Harry Potter? His peers.
  Laurel Wamsley July 20, 2007
  
• Mad Men and Made Men AMC's new series could have been the Sopranos of advertising. It's not.
  Adam Hanft July 18, 2007
  
• Why Bambi II Is Better Than Bambi And why Disney shouldn't kill the straight-to-DVD sequel.
  Dan Kois July 17, 2007
  
• Where's the Beef? It's on YouTube. Why that's a problem for hip-hop.
  Hua Hsu July 6, 2007
  
• "Re-orchestrated, scripted, and rehearsed" How Werner Herzog handles the truth.
  Jessica Winter July 5, 2007
  
• How To Design a Lincoln Museum Do you feel what Lincoln felt?
  Andrew Ferguson July 5, 2007
  
• How To Design a Lincoln Museum Step 1: Ask Disney for advice. Step 2: Build a roller coaster?
  Andrew Ferguson July 4, 2007
  
• When Orson Welles Was a Transformer Why the original Transformers movie is better than the new one.
  John Swansburg July 2, 2007
  
• So, You Want To Be a Star? Leo Lerman's gossipy journals offer lessons on fame.
  Amanda Fortini July 2, 2007
  
• Forget Paris The editor of Us Weekly explains the irresistibility of Paris Hilton—and why she banned the heiress from the magazine.
  Janice Min June 29, 2007
  
• Sarah's Antidote Is the J.T. Leroy scandal what you think it is?
  Stephen Burt June 27, 2007
  
• Calling in Sicko Michael Moore takes to the phones to promote his new movie.
  Christopher Beam June 26, 2007
  
• Short Cuts Is Diff'rent Strokes better at 5 minutes than it was at 30? Tuning in to the Minisode Network.
  Jessica Winter June 22, 2007
  
• Richard Rorty What made him a crucial American philosopher?
  Stephen Metcalf June 15, 2007
  
• What the First Moviegoers Saw Great, uncanny early films.
  Jana Prikryl June 15, 2007
  
• Hot Stuff The quest for radioactive items on eBay.
  Paul Collins June 14, 2007
  
• The Politics of Shmashmortion Knocked Up as litmus test.
  Dana Stevens June 8, 2007
  
• Bye Bye Bodhi Why the movies always get surfing wrong—and John From Cincinnati gets it right.
  Thad Ziolkowski June 8, 2007
  
• Signs From God The curious history of church marquees.
  Doree Shafrir May 30, 2007
  
• Pessimist Nation Slate readers testify to the power of negative thinking.
  John Gravois May 29, 2007
  
• My Favorite Font Anne Fadiman, Jonathan Lethem, Richard Posner, and others reveal what font they compose in and why.
  May 25, 2007
  
• Is Blake Lewis Any Good at Beatboxing? Actually, he's not half bad.
  Jonah Weiner May 22, 2007
  
• The Owen and Luke Wilson Story Time for a new chapter, guys.
  Dana Stevens May 18, 2007
  
• Think Negative! Oprah, it's time to come clean about The Secret.
  John Gravois May 16, 2007
  
• Fear of Blogging Why women shouldn't apologize for being afraid of threats on the Web.
  Dahlia Lithwick May 4, 2007
  
• Spider-Man Gets All Emo Does the sunny superhero really need a dark side?
  Dan Kois May 3, 2007
  
• Admission Is Free. The Rothko Is $40 Million. The wonder, and danger, of the spring auction previews at Sotheby's and Christie's.
  Fred Kaplan April 26, 2007
  
• In Praise of Difficult Poetry The much-maligned art.
  Robert Pinsky April 23, 2007
  
• Uncle Ben, CEO? The strange history of racist spokescharacters.
  David Segal April 20, 2007
  
• Thank God You're Here Putting improv on TV? Hardly.
  Dan Kois April 19, 2007
  
• This Old Grindhouse The theaters were awful and so were the movies.
  Grady Hendrix April 6, 2007
  
• Bourne, Again What really bugs critics about the world's most successful choreographer.
  Brian Seibert April 4, 2007
  
• Anger Management Lessons from an improbable collaboration.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 2, 2007
  
• Grand Theft Politics Should Democrats look to video games for inspiration?
  Joshua Glenn April 2, 2007
  
• Why Is Will Ferrell Funny? A video slide show.
  Josh Levin March 29, 2007
  
• Smokey Bear Nation How we use animal characters to teach our kids.
  Josh Levin March 20, 2007
  
• The Enlightened Bracketologist Interactive brackets reveal the best ad slogan of all time, the greatest film death, and more.
  March 13, 2007
  
• The Katie Show Does Couric's rocky start at CBS spell trouble for Hillary Clinton?
  Rebecca Dana March 7, 2007
  
• Quirky in a Good Way Why all the hate for Little Miss Sunshine?
  Matt Feeney Feb. 22, 2007
  
• Great Poems About Sex An anthology for Valentine's Day.
  Robert Pinsky Feb. 13, 2007
  
• A Very Nasty Portrait of the Artist How Factory Girl insults Andy Warhol.
  Jim Lewis Feb. 7, 2007
  
• World Wide Sundance Will the Web make film festivals obsolete?
  Tim Wu Jan. 26, 2007
  
• Women in Love On Patty Marx, Christopher Hitchens, and funny women.
  Laura Kipnis Jan. 24, 2007
  
• Men Without Tights Comics that reinvent the superhero genre.
  Dan Kois Jan. 22, 2007
  
• Graphic Violence The best comics about the Iraq war.
  Dan Kois Jan. 3, 2007