The Rehearsal

Close Listening

A Few Words About Coughing

POLITICS AND HISTORY

Arts and Life Diary, in Slate.com

Arts and Life Diary, Day Three

Arts and Life Diary, Day Four

Arts and Life Diary, Day Five

The Occupation

My Father Was a Communist

Health Care

Middle East Partisans

What Obama Can Learn From Harry Truman

Newbies and True Believers Bedevil Debt-Ceiling Negotiations

Political Sex Scandals

And Now It’s Newt’s Turn

Of Mosques and Marriage

Citizens United

Getting Scary Out There

Why Romney’s Relationship With GOP Voters Is Like an Arranged Marriage

BOOKS, FILM, TELEVISION, THEATER

The Art of Book-to-Film Adaptations

Best Insult: Oscar’s annual “screw you” to screenwriters

In Memoriam Soupy Sales

When Great Art Happens to Bad People

The Funniest 4 Minutes in the History of Television?

THEATER; The Play of the Movie of the Play

THEATER; The Play That Tamed ‘Taming of the Shrew’

MISCELLANEOUS

UCB RIP

Of Course Rupert Murdoch Isn’t Fit to Run a Company

Opus Posthumous