Joan Didion

Cops and Novelists: Elmore Leonard, Donald Westlake, and other moonlighting screenwriters

Sex, Drag Queens, and Fudge At the Other Gay Resort

Hot and theme-y

Annie Hall

SPITFIRES

A vanload of saliva pulls into Brooklyn

Salman Rushdie Fights Facebook, Wins

​The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie is an enthusiastic tweeter. He often prompts his followers to play games like "Literary Smackdowns" (Joan Didion vs. Susan Sontag, for example), and today he started a new one: blasting Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook deactivated Rushdie's page, thinking it ... More >>

DEEP THOUGHTS

Joan Didion talks with Sloane Crosley

Fall Arts: Book Picks

Floating Along the L.A. River With Psychohydrography

Long May You Shoot--'After the Gold Rush' at the Met

A show of contemporary photos takes on our age's 'gilded toxicity'

Missing New York Times Journalists Return; Famous Women, Blow Jobs Save Newspapers

​Though reporters are still missing, being killed and deported across Syria, Libya.html and the upheaved Middle East, there was some cause for celebration among the media today as the four missing New York Times journalists came home to a hero's welcome. The group has already detailed the brut ... More >>

Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino Attempts to Define New York in Three Words: "Stressful, Congested and Cold"

​"Lil Wayne is free. I am on the cover of the la weekly. Life is pretty alright," tweeted Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino earlier today, and indeed, her face is proudly plastered over our sister paper's front page this week, under the combative legend: "The West Is The Best." Debatable! But the ... More >>

Natasha Richardson Weirdness

​I'm not trying to make something cute out of the tragic death of Natasha Richardson, the fine actress who died after a skiing accident last year. But there have definitely been some creepy coincidences about the aftermath of her passing. Mama Vanessa Redgrave promptly canceled out of schedu ... More >>

The Decade's Best Books

Join us as we leaf through the finest the publishing world had to offer

'The Next Director: So  Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray' at BAMcinématek

Lydia Davis Is Not Indignant

Prolific, though. FSG puts out a big, fat book of the noted writer's stories.

Taking Woodstock Recycles 60's Tropes

Who knew three days of peace & music would oppress us for 40 years? (Plus: this movie)

Al Pacino and Kitty Winn Rexamined in The Panic in Needle Park

Junkie love in New York's classic shoot-'em-up

What Crisis? Some Promising Futures for Art Criticism

National Book Awards Prospects Postmortem

Joan Didion's Brooklyn Book Fest Essay Published: McCain, Obama Eviscerated

Brooklyn Book Festival: Joan Didion, Jonathan Lethem, Richard Price Triumphant

Brooklyn Book Fest: from Joan Didion to Gossip Girl

Thurston Moore, Ian MacKaye, Jonathan Lethem Head Up Brooklyn Book Festival

READ HERE OFTEN?

The perfect place to meet that special bibliophile

Flo Rida: Miami Sound Machine

Ringtone-rap titan unleashes a blaring but robotic debut

Points of Interest

Pushing ballet along adventurous paths

The Pagan Razor

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

No Context: The Dirty Projectors and the Lucky Dragons at the Whitney

The Beastie Boys' The Mix-Up

Not trash exactly, but certainly heavily recycled.

Male Parts, Female Parts—Parts for Everyone

Not only in Lady Chatterley, but also in Lake's and Polley's latest. (And even a role for tiny me.)

Like a Rhinestone Cowboy

Conor Oberst finally emulates the greats by mixing brilliance with bloated bumbling

Idols Friendly and Faux

My tour of modern Grease. Plus a celebulecture and a swashbuckled queen or two or three.

Grief Encounter

Joan Didion's stages of mourning

Film Comment Selects Poorly

One good choice: Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet's final collaboration

Navel Academy

My so-called life: the workshop

Education Listings

Top Shelf 2005

Our 25 favorite books of the year—from teen sex diseases and Aztec slaughterhouses to Kiss riffs and juvenile tambourinists

The Last Thing She Wanted

After John—and Quintana: Joan Didion grapples with grief in a new book of common prayer

When Reading the 'Wrong' Books May Lead to a Sentence

Pop Continued: Warhol and the Art of the Perfect Throwaway

Mother Nature's son, I got 99 problems but a glass onion

Don't Look Back

Where I Was From Finds Native Daughter Joan Didion Slouching Toward California Again

Film

Scumbag in the Dark

Hoosier Daddy

Albo Room

The Informer

Open House

Bother From Another Planet

Aliens Invade New York

The Rapture