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1. Second Read

   Not for Laughs

   March 15, 2011 06:00 AM

   “All cartoonists are geniuses,” wrote John Updike in his introduction to a collection of cartoons by Arnold Roth, a specialist in zany quasi-doodles popular in the late fifties and early sixties. Updike, who had wanted to... Continue reading

2. Essay

   Condition Critical

   January 29, 2009 08:30 AM

   I saw the future through a two-way mirror in November 1990. I had just started a new job as a senior editor at Entertainment Weekly, a magazine then less than a year old, and I was sitting in a darkened... Continue reading

3. Review

   Appetite for Fear

   February 12, 2008 09:00 AM

   Sixty years after the house un-American Activities Committee began hunting for Communists in the entertainment industry, the HUAC hearings that bred the screen blacklist are vivid in the received memory of countless Americans too young to recall the proceedings... Continue reading