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In Jason Reitman's Young Adult, Charlize Theron ably demonstrates that the Oscar she won for playing a believably loathsome serial killer in Monster had little to do with prosthetics and make-up. She's just really good at playing really mean.

Charlize Theron makes a great mean girl

Rachel Fox reviews the new movie Young Adult, written by Diablo Cody and starring Charlize Theron. read more

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Tony Millionaire's Thor story in Strange Tales II.

Superheroes gone wild!

Jaime Hernandez, Tony Millionaire and more alt-comics artists get in on the Marvel action. read more

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Book review – Some Girls: My Life in a Harem by Jillian Lauren-

‘The higher a girl climbed, the fewer friends she would have back at the house with the rest of the harem, but the more attention and luxuries she might receive…’ read more

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Book review – Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself

DFW on the chance to meet Alanis Morissette: “It would cost me a week of absolute trauma. But I would do it in a heartbeat…” read more

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Review – Robert Altman: An Oral Biography

‘The pool (almost) has as many curves as the poolsiders…’ read more

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Review – A Freewheelin’ Time – A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties

‘To Suze they were just a bunch of artists doing their thing, to the rest of us they are legends…’ read more

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Book review – Solar

“… the future would be its own solution.” read more

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Book review – Drinking Vancouver

‘As I leaf through John Lee’s guide to drinking holes in Vancouver… I am sipping a pinot noir in the Public Lounge. He has not awarded this restaurant with a star… but, at least it made the cut…’ read more

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Cat Power – A Good Woman by Elizabeth Goodman

Cuckoo, self-deprecating, sexy, brilliant Chan Marshall – Jenn Laidlaw reviews the biography by Elizabeth Goodman. read more

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25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom review

The famed comic book writer looks at pornography through the ages in a new book. Review by Shawn Conner. read more

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The Vampire of Ropraz

A slim novel looks at events in the Swiss countryside in the early 1900s. read more

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The Importance of Music to Girls/A Girl’s Guide to Rocking – book reviews

Kaitlin Fontana reviews two new books about girls and music. read more

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Book Review – Ravens

A review of a crime thriller by George Dawes Green. read more

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The Strain

Kaitlin Fontana reviews the new horror novel by Chuck Hogan and director Guillermo del Toro. read more

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Funny Misshapen Body and Cecil and Jordan in New York – reviews

Reviews of two new books by Gabrielle Bell and Jeffrey Brown. read more

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