Sarah Vowell

  • "Greedy weirdos and good-hearted men"

    Writer and radio personality Sarah Vowell tells Death Cab for Cutie's Christopher Walla about the ghosts haunting her new book, "Assassination Vacation," and why life is brighter since her turn in "The Incredibles"
    By Christopher Walla April 26, 2005

  • "The Partly Cloudy Patriot" by Sarah Vowell

    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

  • Michaelllllll Jorrrrrdan!

    Forget the NBA playoffs. At the IMAX movie "Michael Jordan to the Max," the greatest player who ever was lives again.
    By Sarah Vowell June 7, 2000

  • The book on film

    Director Martin Scorsese presents a new series of books about film, starring James Agee, Vachel Lindsay, David Selznick and "2001."
    By Sarah Vowell May 10, 2000

  • The Dixie Chicks, TV Guide and me

    America's favorite weirdly schizophrenic magazine comes bound in leather in swanky hotel rooms.
    By Sarah Vowell April 26, 2000

  • Songs that kill

    In the dark comic world of "American Psycho," pop is an essential soundtrack to murder.
    By Sarah Vowell April 12, 2000

  • All this useful beauty

    The hottest art show in America is never better than Tom Cruise in his underwear. Wouldn't a nice Kate Spade handbag be so much more practical?
    By Sarah Vowell March 29, 2000

  • "T for Texas/T for Tennessee"

    From "Waltz Across Texas" to "The Tennessee Waltz": Will Bush or Gore dance his way to the White House?
    By Sarah Vowell March 15, 2000

  • The ballad of Luther and Johnny

    In the jungles of Southeast Asia, 12-year-old twins lead a band of rebels. My twin sister and I got into trouble a lot, too.
    By Sarah Vowell March 1, 2000

  • Honest Abe and Earnest Al

    Reciting Lincoln's words, Gore -- the geek candidate who cares about climate change in 10th century Mexico -- confronts America's most famous presidential ghost.
    By Sarah Vowell February 16, 2000

  • Please, sir, may I have a mother?

    Despite the WB's reputation as the teen-sex network, shows like "Dawson's Creek" and "Roswell" owe their appeal more to the damaged-family yearnings of a Brontk or Dickens novel than to sheer skin.
    By Sarah Vowell February 2, 2000

  • Risky business

    Tom Cruise is not one of us. He's always aloof and alone, seemingly judging us with his eyes. He makes us very, very nervous. Maybe that's why we can't resist him.
    By Sarah Vowell January 19, 2000

  • My favorite things

    Bathrobes, Canadians and plastic chairs: These were the things that made my year.
    By Sarah Vowell January 5, 2000

  • "I'm a pure insider"

    "It Hurts" author Matthew Collings on the uselessness of secular critics, Warhol's sincere cynicism and how one avoids annoying art-speak.
    By Sarah Vowell December 1, 1999

  • Moving pictures

    Why have there been more good movies in the past eight weeks than in the past eight years?
    By Sarah Vowell November 17, 1999

  • NYTV blues

    Now that both Felicity and Jennifer Love Hewitt live here, the streets of New York are no longer safe for Scorsese fans.
    By Sarah Vowell November 3, 1999

  • The drapes of wrath

    Is interior home design responsible for the downfall of American masculinity?
    By Sarah Vowell October 20, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Camille Paglia rages about religion; uncovering the history of "St. James Infirmary"; what's so unique about masturbatory time travel?
    Letters to the Editor October 13, 1999

  • The magical mystery tour

    Listening to good music is like watching a quiz show without cue cards -- the fun is in knowing that you might not ever figure it out.
    By Sarah Vowell October 6, 1999

  • Who needs the NEA, anyway?

    Announcing ... the Your Town Here Arts & Lectures fall season, featuring Anglo-Saxon-American jazz puppet theater!
    By Sarah Vowell September 22, 1999

  • "Colony Girl"

    A rebellious young Eve stands at the center of a novel about a Midwestern religious cult.
    By Sarah Vowell September 16, 1999

  • Sidekick no more

    Conan O'Brien sidekick Andy Richter was the biggest star on "Late Night." So what took him so long to leave?
    By Sarah Vowell September 8, 1999

  • Let us now give "Thanks" some praise

    It's no Arthur Miller masterpiece, but TV's silly, subversive "Thanks" just might be "The Crucible's" sitcom equivalent.
    By Sarah Vowell August 25, 1999

  • Lights, cameo, action!

    Alfred Hitchcock's first rule of directing was to treat actors like cattle -- and even in his own cameos, he was no sacred cow.
    By Sarah Vowell August 11, 1999

  • The mockumentary cometh

    Documentaries are huge. Their perverse cousins are nipping at their heels.
    By Sarah Vowell July 28, 1999
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