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2006 Stories by Jessica Winter

• FEVA Dream

  published September 5, 2006

  Angel-headed hipsters looking for their fix of East Village fun were disappointed late last month by the abrupt cancellation of the fourth annual... More >>

• Secrets and Guys

  published August 1, 2006

  As befits its title, Never Tell is slathered in secret sauce. The characters are full to bursting with closely guarded information of... More >>

• Minor Threat

  published July 25, 2006

  Jonathan Morris wants to make something clear. "At no time did we ever say that Jon Stewart is poisoning democracy," says the political-science... More >>

• Built to Spill

  published July 11, 2006

  The narrator of Tsipi Keller's new novel imagines herself to be a pure, uncorrupted soul, which may be her biggest problem. A graduate student of... More >>

• Blade Runner

  published July 11, 2006

  With his low-cut blouses, arch demeanor, and fruity name, Fanfan la Tulipe may have been the original metrosexual, stuck in the sticks though he... More >>

• Tough Love

  published July 4, 2006

  Love does not conquer all in the films of Frank Borzage, but it is the sole value capable of transcending the indignities of an ugly world. Amid... More >>

• Rocking and Rolling

  published June 13, 2006

  The movie is The Warriors meets The Swimmer," says director Larry Clark about his latest film adventure of the young, restless, and... More >>

• Creature Features

  published May 30, 2006

  An international cast of curious creatures in their native habitats stars in this charming Gallic duo of featurettes. Vivian Ostrovsky's half-hour... More >>

• The Fine Print

  published May 23, 2006

  To reach Archipelago Books, just off the DUMBO waterfront, a guest must squeeze past the team of construction workers in hard hats, goggles, and... More >>

• 'Dandruff and Bile'

  published April 18, 2006

  Misanthropic, disease fixated, perpetually inflamed by petty grievances, lusty yet revolted by her body and its processes: The archetypal Lucy... More >>

• Procrastination 101

  published April 4, 2006

  The pantheon of procrastinators boasts many famous names: Bill Clinton, Duke Ellington, Wong Kar-wai, the Messiah. But these luminaries might meet... More >>

• One Hand, One Art

  published March 28, 2006

  Great American poet and beloved wisdom keeper for many a past and present English major, Elizabeth Bishop is now undergoing a posthumous career... More >>

• Cry, the Beloved Country

  published March 28, 2006

  Straight out of the gate, Free Zone is ready for its close-up—in this case, a nine-minute fixed shot of Natalie Portman in profile,... More >>

• The Saddest Music in the World

  published March 21, 2006

  Lunatic talent is the siren call to many an overmatched filmmaker, as a random sampling of biopics can attest—scrambled brain chemistry is... More >>

• Beads and Burkas

  published March 14, 2006

  The Ugly American gets her day in court with two documentaries this week, and the verdict is mixed. Mardi Gras: Made in China records the... More >>

• Trite Rabbit: Predictable Psychotronic Pseudo-Biopic

  published March 14, 2006

  Construction foreman Frank Thorogood allegedly admitted on his deathbed to the murder of Rolling Stones founding fop Brian Jones, and... More >>

• Christgau vs. the Contortions: Reynolds's Stirring Postpunk History

  published February 28, 2006

  Did post-punk happen before there was even much punk to be post about? The tipping point might have come as early as July 1977—three months... More >>

• 'Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas)'

  published February 21, 2006

  The stuff that History Channel documentaries and European co-productions are made of, the informal truces of Christmas 1914 saw soldiers in the... More >>

• Baby Steps

  published February 14, 2006

  A widescreen wallow in socially enforced slum nihilism brought to you by Miramax, Tsotsi could be pegged as City of God relocated to... More >>

• 'Winter Passing'

  published February 7, 2006

  First Steve Coogan, in Tristram Shandy, and now Zooey Deschanel offer a cappella renditions of "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" on-screen... More >>

• Italian Cine-Novel's Implacable Fury

  published February 7, 2006

  The annotated family album as social history, or vice versa, The Best of Youth is another thick spine on the top shelf of Italian... More >>

• Erasurehead: The Return of Deborah Eisenberg

  published January 31, 2006

  More than eight years have passed since Deborah Eisenberg's superb previous collection All Around Atlantis (1997), which she bookended with... More >>

• Girls Gone Wilde in an Amiable if Undemanding Adaptation

  published January 24, 2006

  Thick-skinned and just a tad vampiric, professional mistress Mrs. Erlynne of Lady Windermere's Fan suggests what The House of... More >>

• Books

  published January 3, 2006

  We met one-half of the Courtney Love genetic equation in Nick Broomfield's 1998 documentary Kurt & Courtney, wherein the blaring ogre Hank... More >>