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• The Mystery of Dinner for One How an obscure British skit has become Germany's most popular New Year's tradition.
  Jude Stewart Dec. 30, 2005
  
• The Chronicles of Narnia Rap It won't save Saturday Night Live, but it could save hip hop.
  Josh Levin Dec. 24, 2005
  
• Been There, Seen That Why is Hollywood so obsessed with remakes?
  Gabriel Snyder Dec. 22, 2005
  
• A Christmas Chronicle How I learned the secret of Santa Claus' annual visit.
  Maile Meloy Dec. 20, 2005
  
• The Real Reason Children Love Fantasy Kids aren't escapists, they're little scientists.
  Alison Gopnik Dec. 20, 2005
  
• Is Anorexia Genetic? What the newest theory leaves out.
  Kate Taylor Dec. 19, 2005
  
• The Truth About Celebrity In Nicole Richie's first novel, celebrities are as obsessed with the tabloids as we are.
  Marshall Heyman Dec. 15, 2005
  
• Men in Love Is Brokeback Mountain a gay film?
  David Leavitt Dec. 8, 2005
  
• Fighting Evil, Quoting Nietzsche Did the comic book really need to grow up?
  Tom Shone Nov. 30, 2005
  
• What's Fat Got To Do With It? Just Friends' marketing about-face. 
  Gabriel Snyder Nov. 29, 2005
  
• Existential Superstar Another look at Edvard Munch's The Scream.
  Mia Fineman Nov. 22, 2005
  
• Irony Maiden How Sarah Silverman is raping American comedy.
  Sam Anderson Nov. 10, 2005
  
• Calvin and Hobbes  The last great newspaper comic strip.
  Chris Suellentrop Nov. 7, 2005
  
• The Rock Snob An anatomy of a delicate breed.
  Stephen Metcalf Nov. 4, 2005
  
• The Depression Wars Would Honest Abe have written the Gettysburg Address on Prozac?
  Field Maloney Nov. 3, 2005
  
• Is Maureen Dowd Necessary? The Times op-ed columnist adds nothing to the debate between the sexes.
  Katie Roiphe Nov. 2, 2005
  
• America's Waistline The politics of fat.
  Laura Kipnis Oct. 28, 2005
  
• Nom de Guerre How my faux French band wound up in federal court.
  Dan Crane Oct. 24, 2005
  
• Mother Superior Cameron Crowe puts his Mom in all his movies. That may be a bad thing.
  Sarah Hepola Oct. 21, 2005
  
• No, Thank You Blame Miss Manners if Miers can't get confirmed.
  Julia Turner Oct. 21, 2005
  
• Marcus vs. Franzen The latest literary wrangling in Harper's leaves everyone confused.
  Jess Row Oct. 20, 2005
  
• Dr. Atomic An opera about the moral complexities of Hiroshima.
  Daniel J. Kevles Oct. 19, 2005
  
• The Nobel Fool Harold Pinter's strident politics.
  Rachel Shteir Oct. 17, 2005
  
• Moral Courage Is defending The Bell Curve an example of intellectual honesty?
  Stephen Metcalf Oct. 17, 2005
  
• Who Is Jacqueline Wilson? And should Americans read her?
  Moira Redmond Oct. 11, 2005
  
• In Warm Blood What the film got right about Truman Capote.
  Daphne Merkin Oct. 6, 2005
  
• In Warm Blood What the film got right about Truman Capote.
  Daphne Merkin Oct. 6, 2005
  
• Farewell, Michael Eisner I'll cherish those witty notes you used to send me.
  Kim Masters Oct. 3, 2005
  
• Joss Whedon Why he should stick to television.
  Seth Stevenson Sept. 30, 2005
  
• All Too Conceivable The reality behind NBC's new fertility clinic soap opera.
  Liza Mundy Sept. 29, 2005
  
• Fairy Tales in the Age of Terror What Terry Gilliam helps to remind us about an ancient genre.
  Maria Tatar Sept. 22, 2005
  
• Star Gazing Unearthing the underworld of celebrity photography.
  Brett Sokol Sept. 9, 2005
  
• My Life as a Hack It was glorious. Now it's over.
  Ben Yagoda Aug. 26, 2005
  
• Teenage Wasteland Farewell to the sadistic pleasures of Brat Camp.
  Sam Anderson Aug. 25, 2005
  
• The Word on the Street The cumulative genius of Overheard in New York.
  Sam Anderson Aug. 18, 2005
  
• The Aristocrats What's funny about one joke told over and over.
  Jim Lewis July 29, 2005
  
• When Harry Met Osama Terrorism comes to Hogwarts.
  Julia Turner July 21, 2005
  
• Self-Storage Nation Americans are storing more stuff than ever.
  Tom Vanderbilt July 18, 2005
  
• Toothpaste for Dinner A slide-show tour of the most addictive comic on the Web.
  Sam Anderson June 24, 2005
  
• And Now For Something Completely Deficient Why Spamalot should never have won a Tony for Best Musical.
  Sam Anderson June 21, 2005
  
• Hayao's Howler The book is more Miyazaki-esque than the film.
  Bidisha Banerjee June 17, 2005
  
• The Circus That Wasn't Why Michael Jackson's trial was nothing like O.J.'s.
  Seth Stevenson June 14, 2005
  
• I'm Trying To Learn Arabic Why's it taking so long?
  Robert Lane Greene June 9, 2005
  
• Dick Knows The Watergate movie that got it right.
  Sasha Issenberg June 6, 2005
  
• Fight Snub How Cinderella Man sucker punches the Jewish boxer Max Baer.
  June 2, 2005
  
• What's a Wookiee? A guide to Episode III for non-geeks.
  Adam Rogers May 18, 2005
  
• Double Trouble What Crash and Kicking & Screaming have in common with Crash and Kicking and Screaming.
  Jill Hunter Pellettieri May 12, 2005
  
• Last Laugh Mitch Hedberg was supposed to be the next Seinfeld.
  Sam Anderson May 11, 2005
  
• Is That a Poem? The case for E.E. Cummings.
  Billy Collins April 20, 2005
  
• Poems Against Poetry Slate's National Poetry Month celebration.
  Robert Pinsky April 19, 2005
  
• Poems Against Poetry Slate's National Poetry Month celebration.
  Robert Pinsky April 12, 2005
  
• Editing Saul Bellow The novelist was a wizard with a dark side.
  Elisabeth Sifton April 8, 2005
  
• Saul Bellow Novelists and critics remember an American master.
  April 8, 2005
  
• The Mall Goes Undercover It now looks like a city street.
  Andrew Blum April 6, 2005
  
• I, Too, Dislike It Slate celebrates poets who don't like poetry.
  Robert Pinsky April 5, 2005
  
• The Limbaugh Code The New York Times best seller no one is talking about.
  Dahlia Lithwick April 1, 2005
  
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? What critics didn't say about Ian McEwan's Saturday.
  Katie Roiphe March 31, 2005
  
• Girl Fight The marginalized debate over female opinion writers.
  Dahlia Lithwick March 16, 2005
  
• In Pursuit of Proust The curious fate of the last three volumes of the new edition.
  Aaron Matz March 3, 2005
  
• Defining Bullshit A philosophy professor says it's a process, not a product.
  Timothy Noah March 3, 2005
  
• Red Carpet Blues How Oscar fashion got so boring.
  Julia Turner Feb. 25, 2005
  
• Old Hollywood Glamour And the man who invented it.
  Virginia Postrel Feb. 25, 2005
  
• Rappers and Bloggers Separated at birth!
  Josh Levin Feb. 23, 2005
  
• Lipstick Lesbians Why The L Word isn't just eye-candy.
  Ariel Levy Feb. 18, 2005
  
• A Little Anthology of Love Poems What to read your sweetheart on Valentine's Day.
  Robert Pinsky Feb. 11, 2005
  
• Ladies First The utopian fantasy of Deep Throat.
  Laura Kipnis Feb. 11, 2005
  
• The Other Sontag Why isn't the critic remembered for her short stories?
  Jess Row Jan. 31, 2005
  
• Navel Gazing Why even feminists are obsessed with fat.
  Laura Kipnis Jan. 5, 2005