Humanizing The Vacuum

A world I did not wish to enter Took me and poised me on my centre, Made me grimace, and foot, and prance, As cats on hot bricks have to dan...

Armond White's complimentary review of the U2 concert documentary -- kind of. He's correctly notes the thrilling juxtaposition of s...

I'm shocked that this article would miss the obvious explanation as to why Florida has so many seniors: the aging Cuban exile community...

Responding to a Mitt "Mitt" Romney speech on his religious beliefs that, in the spin cycle of current pol drama, feels like ages a...

Upton Sinclair is a writer on the periphery of the periphery for me: I read and was duly horrified by The Jungle in high school; was a soci...

So that's where Art Garfunkel's been -- reading Lucretius, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hardy, and, er, Fareed Zakaria . Thus proving ...

Two obits -- by the NYT's A.O. Scott and Slate's Dana Stevens -- try to unearth the nature of Heath Ledger's promise. I prefe...

Ugh . He'll forever be remembered for Brokeback Mountain , deservedly, but his quiet performance in I'm Not There is the kind of un...

Many fools have tried to embrace the 19,000,000 neon bulb excess of Las Vegas and only gotten singed for their hubris (how many copies of U2...

Now the best part about the Idolator poll: the selected mixes. Rich , Ethan , and Andy's are three of the best, but there are many oth...

I'm going to Vegas in a few days for a bachelor party. I don't gamble. Any suggestions?

A couple more reviews: Gore Vidal's last novel and the sequel to the best Theodore Roosevelt biography extant.