
Tales that defined a generation
The setting: the Southern California desert, 1991. The characters: three twenty-something friends–Andrew, Dag, and Claire–who are underemployed, overeducated, floundering. The

The setting: the Southern California desert, 1991. The characters: three twenty-something friends–Andrew, Dag, and Claire–who are underemployed, overeducated, floundering. The

I never set out to find this book. But I stumbled upon a mention in my favorite (now-defunct) journal and

Some movies stay with you long after they’re over. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is one of them. I’ve watched

Franny and Zooey is a collection of two short stories that originally appeared in The New Yorker in the 50s. In

What item is sold once every two seconds in America? It’s Maybelline Great Lash mascara, in the iconic pink and green

Jane Austen a cult classic author? Absolutely. She is justly famous for her six completed novels, but the general public

I’m baffled at some of the “cult classics” that I think are bona fide classics, no modifier required. A cult

Just before the turn of the century, designer Phillippe Starck reinvented the Louis XV armchair for the modern era, molding

“I am a working woman with a secret life. I keep house.” So begins Cheryl Mendelson’s 884-page love song to

When Mean Girls came out in 2004, it was aimed squarely at teen girls. But I was a grown-up then, and
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