Harold Bloom

The Encyclopedist of the Grind House: Tarantino on Film

Gilbert Sorrentino: Lunar Follies

Artists of the Year

12 Rods, Jon Stewart, Howard Stern, Quentin Tarantino, Garrison Keillor, MF Doom, Lawrence Lessig, Randi Rhodes...

The Moor's Last Sigh

The Guthrie makes 'Othello' mellow; Sherlock Holmes hits the coffee shop

The Diva of talk

Too loud, too opinionated, too brash. Few thought Katherine Lanpher could revive Minnesota Public Radio's sagging Midmorning. WRONG!

Gold Diggers of 2000

Actor-director Kenneth Branagh enters his Love's Labour's Lost in this year's musical movie sweepstakes

Hamlet Machine

Michael Almereyda's contemporary Hamlet projects tragedy onto the screen of corporate culture

Schoolhouse Talk

University lectures on tape may be the most middlebrow product since Reader's Digest. So what's wrong with that?