Robert Bly

Critics' Picks: Zoo Animal, Dillinger Four, and Lyle Lovett

Dean Magraw & Marcus Wise

Mark Mallman Marathon 3 live blog, day 2

Photo by Erik Hess​While the rest of us slept last night, tucked away warm in our beds, Mark Mallman continued laboring away during the first overnight lap of his Marathon 3, which continues through Sunday.We're picking up where we left off last night to find out how the Marathon is going so far - ... More >>

Friends of Bill Holm

Photo by Erik Hess​While the rest of us slept last night, tucked away warm in our beds, Mark Mallman continued laboring away during the first overnight lap of his Marathon 3, which continues through Sunday.We're picking up where we left off last night to find out how the Marathon is going so far - ... More >>

Best in shows: Top plays from Minneapolis theater in '08 (Act II)

Fences, Blackbird round out best plays of the year

Twin Cities Book Festival

Fences, Blackbird round out best plays of the year

Hailing Rain Taxi for years of service

Against all odds, Eric Lorberer's esoteric literary journal has prospered

Free Will Astrology

Against all odds, Eric Lorberer's esoteric literary journal has prospered

Strange Odyssey

Ibsen's 'Peer Gynt' isn't easy to stage, but the Guthrie turns this odd tale into a sprawling, dreamlike adventure

Free Will Astrology

Ibsen's 'Peer Gynt' isn't easy to stage, but the Guthrie turns this odd tale into a sprawling, dreamlike adventure

Free Will Astrology

Ibsen's 'Peer Gynt' isn't easy to stage, but the Guthrie turns this odd tale into a sprawling, dreamlike adventure

Wanted: Someone To Write An Ode to a Urinal

Is there no one in Minnesota who can handle the job?

The Phantom Menses

It's Only the Blood of Brothers That Flows Through Tolkien's Episode I

There's This Book You've Never Heard of

but if you had heard of it, you'd really enjoy reading it, which is why this unusual book review, Rain Taxi, continues to exist against what truly are the longest of odds

Lost In Space

How can you sample the Statue of Liberty? What is Wile E. Coyote standing on when he runs off a cliff? Solving the riddles of the universe with digital artist Paul Higham

Dan Schneider vs. the Rest of the World

The never-ending showdown between a relentless poetic provocateur and the back-patting literary establishment that shudders at the very sound of his name

Delivering the Male

David Fincher's Fight Club turns macho discontentment into the ultimate dick flick

Man in the Middle

Feminist Susan Faludi looks for the lost continent of American masculinity

Out of Characters

Feminist Susan Faludi looks for the lost continent of American masculinity

Off Beat

Feminist Susan Faludi looks for the lost continent of American masculinity

The Year in Film

The movies of '98 posed the question: Haven't we seen this somewhere before?

Very Bad Guy

The movies of '98 posed the question: Haven't we seen this somewhere before?

Michael Hurley: Snockgrass

The movies of '98 posed the question: Haven't we seen this somewhere before?

Tough Love

Eyes Wide Shut: Post-feminist women Quimby Lombardozzi and Noël Raymond blink into the gender abyss in John Patrick Shanley's Women of Manhattan.

CULTURE TO GO

Eyes Wide Shut: Post-feminist women Quimby Lombardozzi and Noël Raymond blink into the gender abyss in John Patrick Shanley's Women of Manhattan.

Book Roundup

Eyes Wide Shut: Post-feminist women Quimby Lombardozzi and Noël Raymond blink into the gender abyss in John Patrick Shanley's Women of Manhattan.

Touch of the Witch

Eyes Wide Shut: Post-feminist women Quimby Lombardozzi and Noël Raymond blink into the gender abyss in John Patrick Shanley's Women of Manhattan.