- November 16, 2009
- The Wild, Wild Ways of Nicolas Cage
“There’s a very fine line between Method actor and schizophrenic,” Cage has said. Which might explain this unpredictable star, who ricochets between inspired, offbeat performances and empty blockbusters; indulges in confounding extravagance; and names a son after Superman. How did Nicolas Coppola become Nicolas Cage?
- November 16, 2009
- What a Strange Trip It’s Been
The perverse and addictive pleasures of Mad Men’s third season.
- November 5, 2009
- The Lady With (Almost) All the Answers
Sometimes a veneer of professionalism is the only thing masking all-out panic. Julie White, in The Understudy, gives us both at once.
- November 16, 2009
- The Baffler
Willem Dafoe returns to the stage in Idiot Savant—and it’s a blast. (So what if it doesn’t make sense?)
- November 16, 2009
- Victorian Secret
You think your grandparents were inhibited? Lynn Redgrave's were worse.
- November 9, 2009
- Brief Moments in Cougar History
In reality and fiction, they’ve been evolving for a long time.
- November 9, 2009
- The Approval Matrix: Week of November 9, 2009
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
- November 9, 2009
- How to Sell an Apocalypse
At the Four Seasons in Jackson Hole, neo-shaman Daniel Pinchbeck prepared to discuss the end of the world.
- November 9, 2009
- Hungry?
The latest in a bumper crop of books about the ethics of eating animals.
- November 9, 2009
- Conversation: All-Access Obama
By the People is not a warts-and-all political exposé.

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