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Photographer Flor Garduño's work is a fecund mix of eroticism, magical realism -- and sexy fruit.
By Douglas Cruickshank
October 4, 2002
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Painter Laurie Hogin uses the style of Old Masters and a frightening menagerie of beasts to illustrate the nightmares to be found in the American dream.
By Douglas Cruickshank
September 30, 2002
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A "This American Life" commentator celebrates nerds and explains how to love your country without turning into a boorish, jingoistic, kitsch-crazed lout.
By Douglas Cruickshank
September 11, 2002
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The author of two books about coping with sudden death talks about the emotional fallout of losing someone without having had a chance to say goodbye.
By Douglas Cruickshank
September 9, 2002
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Band insider Dennis McNally talks about his new 600-page biography of the Grateful Dead, and answers questions about their long, strange trip.
By Douglas Cruickshank
August 20, 2002
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You may not push that hottie out of bed for eating crackers. But what about for wearing Tevas?
By Douglas Cruickshank
August 7, 2002
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A book about Buddhism and psychedelics asks whether it's best, when seeking higher consciousness, to take the stairs or the elevator.
By Douglas Cruickshank
July 11, 2002
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Writing from her exciting new institutional home, Martha gives "how to serve" a whole new meaning.
By Douglas Cruickshank
June 27, 2002
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The new biography of the Hip Messiah gives us a quintessentially American character worthy of a Mark Twain novel.
By Douglas Cruickshank
June 26, 2002
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The Cockettes exuded the optimism, playfulness, sexiness and theatricality of a subculture that slipped away almost as soon as it was born. (With a gallery of photographs by Robert Altman.)
By Douglas Cruickshank
June 21, 2002
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A marijuana connoisseur travels around the world seeking out the people who grow, smoke and worship weed -- and the people who try to stop them.
By Douglas Cruickshank
June 13, 2002
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Who needs cigarettes? Let's put nicotine where the sun don't shine!
By Douglas Cruickshank
June 7, 2002
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The story of the "Godfather of Grunge" is a tale of sickness, health, overweening ego, spectacular talent and reckless abandon.
By Douglas Cruickshank
June 5, 2002
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From porcelain machine guns to plates commemorating hideous disasters, artist Charles Krafft's grimly satirical work sheds strange light on an age when terror is rattling our teacups. (With a portfolio of 14 photographs.)
By Douglas Cruickshank
May 30, 2002
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The Department of Energy is creating a vast monument to scare future trespassers away from radioactive waste sites. Their plan: A granite Stonehenge thing with warnings in Navajo!
By Douglas Cruickshank
May 10, 2002
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Readers respond to articles on feminism and the dinner bill, Bush's healthcare insanity and America's love of dysfunction.
May 9, 2002
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The Kinsey Institute's "Sex and Humor" collection of images is eroticism at its most ridiculous.
By Douglas Cruickshank
May 6, 2002
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Two great American con men bilked their fellow citizens of millions by peddling goat gonad cures for impotence and shares in the estate of Sir Francis Drake.
By Douglas Cruickshank
May 6, 2002
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An American activist who snuck past Israeli troops to deliver food says there's plenty of illness, very little food and absolutely no militants hiding inside.
By Douglas Cruickshank
May 3, 2002
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Somewhere along the line, we traded the Cleavers for the Osbournes. Family angst and social stigma are new tickets to fame and fortune.
By Douglas Cruickshank
May 3, 2002
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The political satirist scripts lines the Democrats could have used to win in 2000, muses on torture and orgasms -- and remains "concerned" about Rush Limbaugh.
By Douglas Cruickshank
April 20, 2002
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Manuel Alvarez Bravo's photographs of women are ethereal, carnal,
dreamlike evocations of the subconscious landscape
By Douglas Cruickshank
April 12, 2002
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The man who created the world's most sexy, emotionally charged and theatrical buildings lived a life of fasting and fanatical celibacy.
By Douglas Cruickshank
April 11, 2002
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This weird history of two men's sex clubs in 18th century Scotland cries out for Mike Meyers and John Cleese.
By Douglas Cruickshank
April 10, 2002
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Readers respond to a Sept. 11 widow's anger at cartoonist Ted Rall, and to Douglas Cruickshank's criticism of the Andrea Yates verdict.
March 21, 2002
Pomegranate porn
Sexy monkeys and mutant bunnies
"The Partly Cloudy Patriot" by Sarah Vowell
"Normal will never happen again"
The life of the Dead
Deal breakers
"Zig Zag Zen," by Allan Hunt Badiner, ed.
Martha Stewart's tips for gracious big-house living
Lord Buckley rides again!
Complete sexual anarchy
"Pot Planet" by Brian Preston
Nicogasm!
"Shakey: Neil Young's Biography" by Jimmy McDonough
Been there, smashed that
How do you design a "Keep Out!" sign to last 10,000 years?
Sexy silliness
The art of the scam
Crazy for dysfunction
Al Franken
Naked interiors
"Gaudí" by Gijs van Hensbergen
"May prick nor purse never fail you"
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald
Joan Walsh