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Cameron Tuttle’s bad girl guides just lead women into the same old traps.

Is baseball about something other than baseball?

What does it take to be a rebel? Ann Powers and Alan Kaufman don’t have a clue.

Political participation is down, civic participation is down, religious participation is down, charitable participation is down. People don’t even go to parties much anymore.

What happened when an ambitious researcher tried to fool Mother Nature.

Malcolm Gladwell’s new book isn’t just a look at how fads work–it’s a sinister exercise in the manipulation of information, meaning, and, ultimately, us.

Two new anthologies try to recapture the insurgent mania of Mad magazine’s heyday.

“This is all there is…sex and more sex and still more sex,” says a young gay man in John Rechy’s The Coming of the Night, getting philosophical in the middle of some coke-fueled, no-holes-barred fucking on Fire Island in the summer of 1980. “That’s all God gave only us–and to no one else–to compensate for […]

Hannah Senesh is one of Monica Lewensky’s personal heroes. What would Senesh say about Monica?

Lawrence Weschler writes about people you’ve never heard of whose lives are consumed by things you don’t know anything about, and invariably their stories are fascinating and profound.

Two new Kerouac biographies take the low road.