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2001 Stories by Ed Park

• Reviewer Afraid

  published December 4, 2001

  A pair of movies this week tilts at civilization and its discontents, championing fluid sexuality and scorning societal hypocrisies. That the... More >>

• The Man Who Wasn't There

  published December 4, 2001

  I. About 23 times a year, by his count, the narrator of Nicholson Baker's novel The... More >>

• Border-Cross’d

  published November 27, 2001

  The didactic ABCD is less effective in dramatizing the choices facing second-generation Indian Americans than as a showcase for Sheetal... More >>

• Declarations of Martial Awe

  published November 6, 2001

  The One reduces Nietzschean eternal recurrence to a mere 124 coexisting universes (the "multiverse"), all of them apparently consisting of... More >>

• Lyrical Gangbang

  published October 30, 2001

  Buppie backlash cast as revenger's tragedy, Bones situates a writhing, viscous City of the Dead in a blasted ghetto so anonymous it must... More >>

• Gaaah!

  published October 23, 2001

  This week's romantic comedy entries are sitting ducks, titularly speaking: Better Than Sex isn't, while the truly painful Ouch!... More >>

• Not Necessarily the News

  published October 16, 2001

  Upon a hill in a Tennessee cemetery, 43-year-old Ronnie Simonson, one of the reporters for the handicapped-anchored "show" How's Your... More >>

• Fate Is Enough

  published October 2, 2001

  Now that irony is dead, it's a sanctioned pleasure to embrace Serendipity, shopworn fluff as regressive as its namesake Upper East Side... More >>

• Subterranean Homesick Blues

  published September 18, 2001

  "I want good to happen to me, not evil," explains 12-year-old Mihai, one of five homeless children profiled in Edet Belzberg's haunting... More >>

• Like Pater for ‘Chocolat’

  published August 28, 2001

  A Chicano cover version of Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman, Tortilla Soup mixes Food Network money shots with the dregs of King... More >>

• Accidents Will Happen

  published August 21, 2001

  A tricky proposition in life, time travel is a breeze in cinema: Just run the film backward. Opening with such reverse spoolery, Brad Anderson's... More >>

• Arcane Games

  published August 21, 2001

  Included in the cast of Allen Kurzweil's first novel, 1992's A Case of Curiosities, is a hack writer "partial to narratives based on... More >>

• Caste Away

  published August 7, 2001

  Disney's The Princess Diaries, despite its grandiose carpet bomb of a title (n.b. the subliminal "Princess Di"), is a modest, enjoyable... More >>

• The Anatomy Lesson

  published July 31, 2001

  Love "I am not an instructor in love, and what I... More >>

• The Waterboy

  published June 12, 2001

  This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the death of Ignatius Donnelly, the Populist congressman who single-handedly resurrected the Atlantis... More >>

• SmackDown

  published May 8, 2001

  Hot mutton for the Medieval Times crowd and unlikely catalyst for a Chaucer revival, A Knight's Tale is at best harmless, if not quite fun.... More >>

• Web Pages

  published April 10, 2001

  Harry Stephen Keeler (1890-1967) wrote prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically. Perhaps too ecstatically for popular... More >>

• Chinese Whispers

  published January 16, 2001

  In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue: So runs the New World catechism. But some doubted his primacy even then. Oviedo relates the "romantic... More >>