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Community’s state of play

By the time you read this, NBC's brilliant, neglected stepchild of a sitcom will back on the air, having survived its creator's firing, various scheduling debacles, and the epic flouncing-off of Chevy Chase.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | February 05, 2013

Beauty and the geek

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Geek is now chic, and the Internet is filled with female makeup artists who draw inspiration from superhero comics, video games, and science fiction.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | November 08, 2012

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Killing with kindness: Why the Death With Dignity Act endangers people with disabilities

I think my opinions about doctor-assisted suicide crystallized the night Mike — my wheelchair-using, ventilator-breathing boyfriend — choked on pineapple juice, passed out, and died.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | November 05, 2012

The Joy of Smut

The porn here is explicit, character-driven, and polymorphically perverse.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | October 17, 2012

Celebrating Roman Totenberg

When not reporting on the Supreme Court for NPR, Nina Totenberg has spent the last few months working with her two sisters to plan a memorial for her father, Roman.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | October 09, 2012

Junot Díaz: down and dirty

Pulitzer alum and MIT prof Junot Díaz's new book, This Is How You Lose Her , follows his alter ego Yunior to Boston, where he gets yelled at by racists and rejected by women.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | September 21, 2012

The immortal life of Harvey Pekar

A comics legend’s posthumous abundance
So here's our man, gone these two years and still putting out work.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | August 29, 2012

We need to talk about Hans Rickheit

Peverse delight
I want to have sex with Hans Rickheit.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | June 15, 2012

Roman Totenberg's last bow

"A remarkable death"
Roman Totenberg is teaching a lesson.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | May 07, 2012

Bechdel looks at her mom, Abrams packages the Garbage Pail Kids, and Corman’s new graphic novel, Unterzakhn

Serious funnies
For years, I faithfully followed Alison Bechdel's comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For , an ongoing lesbian soap opera with a huge cast of characters, all of them vivid and realized.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | April 04, 2012

A Far Cry rocks harder than your favorite band. But can they save classical music from itself?

A young person's guide to the orchestra
Night falls in Jamaica Plain. The drunks are flicking cigarettes on the sidewalk outside the Jeanie Johnston pub; on the corner, Santería devotees are buying candles at the Botanica San Miguel. And in between, in a leased storefront, 17 classical musicians are losing their fucking minds to Haydn.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | February 23, 2012

The director of Immortals could be Hollywood's most misunderstood blockbuster auteur

Tarsem revealed
When I first saw the trailer for Immortals, I wondered how Tarsem's newest film would be misinterpreted.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | November 30, 2011

Voices carry

Marty hears things that aren't there. Doctors say she's schizophrenic. A new movement says she's just human.
She can hear a baby crying. She searches the house, each cluttered room, the closets, under the bed. She checks the cupboards. She checks behind the shower curtains. There is no baby.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | October 21, 2011

In his new graphic novel, Craig Thompson wins an argument with God

Illuminated manuscript
This book is a gorgeous object; to make it, Thompson apparently covered himself in honey and rolled around in a thousand years of Arabic calligraphy and Islamic art, and the result is breathtaking — the amount of ink expended on one resplendent panel after another, not to mention the virtuoso draftsmanship, speaks of hundreds of hours of hard work.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | August 31, 2011