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Last night I happened to see Lars and the Real Girl, which engaged and delighted me in a completely unintentional way. The supporting cast -- the adorable Emily Mortimer and Kelli Garner; the great Paul Schneider; the charming-even-when-miscast Patricia Clarkson -- is perfect, but the movie's premise...

When I wrote a post last week about campus cops attacking and tasering a student at John Kerry's University of Florida speaking event, I criticized Kerry's behavior during the incident. The post drew some strong reactions and I want to follow up.

I was startled that so many...

This isn't really a review; consider it a breathless, extemporaneous appreciation. I saw The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford a few hours ago and it doesn't feel like something to sit down and matter-of-factly dissect. God, it's a majestic accomplishment....

By now I'm sure you've seen the videos of University of Florida student Andrew Meyer being attacked and tasered by university police at a John Kerry speaking event. If not, here's one, here's another, and here's another.

The videos (reminiscent of the nasty video from last...

I was bored to hell by 3:10 to Yuma and I can't understand why a lot of people are really enthusiastic about it. I liked the first forty seconds or so -- the title credits are cool, and I felt the anguish and fear of Christian Bale's character (Bale's a...

At 22, Helen Oyeyemi is the internationally acclaimed author of The Icarus Girl and The Opposite House. She is also at work on a third novel, Pie-Kah. Here is an in-depth interview with Oyeyemi about the moral, cultural, and sociopolitical underpinnings of her fiction.

Interview conducted via...

I watched The Bourne Ultimatum last night. It's a pretty spectacular piece of craftsmanship. Damon is convincingly brutal and desperate as the most existential of action film protagonists and the script is solid, but it's really Paul Greengrass who owns this thing and gives it such merciless, jittery energy.

A...

In June, Noah Cicero came to New York to read at KGB Bar from the rough manuscript of his new novel, The Insurgent. Another novel, The Human War, was just released in the U.K. by Snowbooks and sold to publishers in Greece and Germany, so Cicero...

You don't write a short story collection for the money or the glory. It's not there. Distressingly few people read them; only a few get even modest attention. For all the lamentation about fiction's dwindling readership, there have been great novels published in the last decade and some of them...

I hate this New York Times article and articles like it. Trend pieces about drugs -- how such and such is "coming back." (Though I am fascinated by $2 heroin. Holy shit. I have an old friend who was a heroin addict in, I guess, the 70s; he...

On Monday, as has been widely reported, a Georgia court ordered the release of 21-year-old Genarlow Wilson from prison, where he is 28 months into a 10-year sentence for "aggravated child molestation." He received consensual oral sex at the age of 17 from a girl two years his junior. The...

What we need is a sexual Facebook. A Facebook.com-like "social networking" site designed with the primary purpose of facilitating casual sexual encounters among educated young people. This would, I think, make the world a slightly better place.

Online social networking as it currently exists is...