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• Coming Soon to a Shelf Near You Do books really need Hollywood-style trailers?
  Troy Patterson Nov. 18, 2009
  
• I Spend My Free Time With Dead People The strange hobby of graving.
  Adrian Chen Oct. 29, 2009
  
• Roll Over, Beethoven How Yamaha's new electronic piano improves upon a 300-year-old instrument.
  Chris Wilson Oct. 28, 2009
  
• We Have a Winner! The results of Slate's Significant Objects contest.
  Oct. 27, 2009
  
• Is Lars von Trier a Misogynist? Maybe not!
  Jessica Winter Oct. 22, 2009
  
• Significant Objects Can a great story give a worthless item monetary value? A Slate contest.
  Oct. 9, 2009
  
• The Very Grouchy Daddy I've read The Very Hungry Caterpillar to my daughter 796 times. Please, make it stop.
  Daniel B. Smith Oct. 8, 2009
  
• The Garlic Years When have we not been in the midst of a vampire craze?
  Christopher Beam Sept. 23, 2009
  
• This Scene Could Really Use a Man-Eating Jellyfish How I wrote Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.
  Ben H. Winters Sept. 15, 2009
  
• Model U.N. Why the international spinoffs of America's Next Top Model are better than the original.
  Torie Bosch Sept. 9, 2009
  
• SpongeBob BaggyPants The strange, persistent demand for T-shirts featuring "urbanized" cartoon characters.
  Jonah Weiner Sept. 2, 2009
  
• Quentin Tarantino Has one of the most overrated directors of the '90s become one of the most underrated of the aughts?
  Dennis Lim Aug. 20, 2009
  
• Miles at the Movies The best and worst Kind of Blue moments in screen history.
  Kim Gittleson Aug. 17, 2009
  
• Spinning in the Grave The three biggest reasons music magazines are dying.
  Jonah Weiner July 27, 2009
  
• Armando Iannucci What the In the Loop director taught Sacha Baron Cohen. And Ricky Gervais. And Stephen Colbert.
  Jessica Winter July 23, 2009
  
• I Believe I Can Fly Can I teach myself to control my dreams?
  Mason Currey July 17, 2009
  
• What a Phony I read the banned Catcher in the Rye "sequel" so you don't have to.
  Juliet Lapidos July 15, 2009
  
• On the Offensive After Brüno, Hollywood depictions of gays may never be the same. That's a good thing.
  Dennis Lim July 9, 2009
  
• Scandinavian Crime Wave Why the most peaceful people on earth write the greatest homicide thrillers.
  Nathaniel Rich July 8, 2009
  
• The King of Pop Amazing photos of Michael Jackson.
  June 26, 2009
  
• 100 Percent Pure Adrenaline The four rules of action movies Kathryn Bigelow breaks every time (and thank goodness for that).
  Jessica Winter June 25, 2009
  
• That Guy From Jurassic Park Would Like To Ask You a Few Questions What is Jeff Goldblum doing on Law & Order?
  Nathan Heller June 25, 2009
  
• The Real World/Road Rules Challenge It's been on for 17 seasons. Why I can't stop watching.
  Bonnie Vaughan June 16, 2009
  
• Orphaned Tweets When people sign up for Twitter, post once, then never return.
  Jeremy Singer-Vine June 8, 2009
  
• Which Brings Me to the Work I've Done in Africa Politicians make lousy commencement speakers. Hire a celebrity instead.
  Mark Oppenheimer May 15, 2009
  
• Everything Is Illuminati Why can't the Catholic Church shake free of a 200-year-old conspiracy theory?
  George Johnson May 14, 2009
  
• There Are Four Lights! Revisiting Star Trek: The Next Generation's eerily prescient torture episode.
  Juliet Lapidos May 7, 2009
  
• There's No Klingon Word for Hello A history of the gruff but surprisingly sophisticated invented language and the people who speak it.
  Arika Okrent May 7, 2009
  
• I Want To GOP to There 30 Rock's weird conservative streak.
  Jonah Weiner May 6, 2009
  
• Scrubs Goofy, cartoonish, and the most accurate portrayal of the medical profession on TV.
  Joanna Weiss May 6, 2009
  
• I Heart Wolverine How a ridiculous Canadian mutant conquered the world.
  Grady Hendrix April 30, 2009
  
• The Name's Du Xiao Hua, But Call Me Steve What's up with Chinese people having English names?
  Huan Hsu April 27, 2009
  
• Tweet Styles of the Rich and Famous How to decide which celebrities are worth following on Twitter.
  Jessica Winter April 22, 2009
  
• Devilishly Good What makes Tony Gilroy's movies so impossible to resist?
  James Parker April 17, 2009
  
• Readin' Dirty Wetlands is the "2 Girls 1 Cup" of novels.
  Troy Patterson April 3, 2009
  
• Oh, What a Chaos It Seems Cheever bequeathed his biographer a journal as messy as his life.
  Blake Bailey April 3, 2009
  
• Code Blue Slate readers bid a fond, sad farewell to ER.
  April 1, 2009
  
• Nü Testaments Two memoirs about turning to God, from two members of Korn.
  James Parker April 1, 2009
  
• Paging ER Fans, Stat Slate wants to know why you still watch.
  March 31, 2009
  
• Great Shots of Tough Times Ten new photographs of the economic crisis from Slate readers.
  March 30, 2009
  
• Bleak House: The 3-D Concert Experience Did Charles Dickens' 1867 trip to America inspire the first stirrings of modern celebrity culture?
  Matthew Pearl March 17, 2009
  
• Great Shots of Tough Times Slate readers share their photographs of the economic crisis.
  March 12, 2009
  
• Tag, You're It! What to do when old photos of you appear on Facebook.
  Brian Braiker March 10, 2009
  
• Boy Toy Ken's sad and lonely life in Barbie's shadow.
  Troy Patterson March 6, 2009
  
• The New Scrooge Are there lemonade stands that devote more to charity than Amazon.com?
  Paul Collins March 6, 2009
  
• What if Woody Allen Had Directed Watchmen? How other directors might have filmed the comics classic.
  Ashley Quigg March 5, 2009
  
• Watchmen Failed The revolution it was supposed to inspire—comics about ordinary people—never happened.
  Grady Hendrix March 5, 2009
  
• Let's Get Those Phones Ringing! The cunning genius of the public radio fundraising drive.
  June Thomas March 2, 2009
  
• Stompin' in My Air Force One How will Obama's presidency change hip-hop?
  Jonah Weiner Feb. 26, 2009
  
• Van Morrison's Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl Should aging rock stars be allowed to dust off their magnum opuses?
  James Parker Feb. 24, 2009
  
• Shoot the Recession Slate wants to see your photographs of the economic crisis.
  Feb. 24, 2009
  
• Shoot the Recession Terms and conditions.
  Feb. 24, 2009
  
• Don't Worry About Conan He's going to be great as the Tonight Show host.
  Ben Mathis-Lilley Feb. 19, 2009
  
• Great Book, Bad Movie How Hollywood ruins novels.
  Willing Davidson Feb. 17, 2009
  
• Top Yogi Rabbit poses, coconut water, and a Bikram-practicing dance team at the international yoga championship.
  Neal Pollack Feb. 17, 2009
  
• Lovers' Laments Renaissance sonnets and the art of passionate excess.
  Robert Pinsky Feb. 12, 2009
  
• Blessed Be the Newsmakers A new business model for the press: Declare itself a religion.
  Stephen Bates Feb. 11, 2009
  
• A 21st-Century Sex Scandal Would the mayor of Portland be out of office if he weren't gay?
  Taylor Clark Feb. 10, 2009
  
• Slate Bids Updike Adieu Editors and writers remember John Updike.
  Jan. 29, 2009
  
• Down and Out, Not in Beverly Hills Frozen River, Wendy and Lucy, and other great new movies about America's poor.
  Elbert Ventura Jan. 29, 2009
  
• Dear John What I'll miss about John Updike.
  John Irving Jan. 28, 2009
  
• I Know What Happens on Lost This Season Hint: Hurley's nothing but trouble.
  Chadwick Matlin Jan. 22, 2009
  
• No Father to His Style The spiritual journey of Ol' Dirty Bastard.
  James Parker Jan. 22, 2009
  
• Secrets of Lost Revealed! Everything you need to know happens in the first five minutes of the season premieres.
  Chadwick Matlin Jan. 21, 2009
  
• Strong, Silent Types The red-hot new stars of lesbian romance novels: Secret Service agents.
  June Thomas Jan. 19, 2009