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Sep 25, 2008

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X Films
Alex Cox

The director of Repo Man and Sid & Nancy reminisces and advises young filmmakers. Hint #1: Don't give Harry Dean Stanton a fake bat.

Mar 29, 2002

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Yakuza #8
Dave McGurgan, editor

Yakuza has been a name in the zine world for a while now, covering punk rock and travel experiences for about four years. The previous...

Mar 29, 2002

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Yeah! #1
Peter Bagge & Gilbert Hernandez

Last year's final issue of Peter Bagge's long-running comic book Hate marked the end of an era—a well-worn cliché, but in this...

Feb 8, 2006

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The Year Of Yes
Maria Dahvana Headley

How one woman learned a lot by lowering her standards, and survived to write a memoir about it.

Mar 29, 2002

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The "other England" of author Nick Cohn's title is the one not pictured in postcards or found in films like Notting Hill, an...

Apr 19, 2002

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Yippy Skippy, The Evil!
Pete Abrams

Ever since Bill Watterson, Gary Larson, and Berke Breathed collectively threw in the towel, newspaper comics have been on a depressing downward...

Apr 19, 2002

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A conspiracy-minded book that more than lives up to the bold provocation of its title, Disinformation's You Are Being Lied To collects a...

Aug 5, 2002

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You Cannot Be Serious
John McEnroe (with James Kaplan)

For tennis fans, John McEnroe's ascendancy in the early to mid-'80s was cause for ambivalence, if not outright disdain: He was phenomenally...

Mar 29, 2007

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You Don't Love Me Yet
Jonathan Lethem

An ambitious novelist hits some sour notes in a low-key tale of a struggling Los Angeles band.

Jan 27, 2003

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The American public tends to like its scandals sleazy and sensational, which helps explain why the deluge of recent corporate scandals felt a...

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