14 · The Chosen Issue

Remembered for her zany hats and pubescent troubles on the sitcom _Blossom_, Mayim Bialik could have easily entered pop culture's stable of desperate reality TV stars. But save an appearance on _Curb Your Enthu...

Marissa Nadler's music seems to exist in a world of its own. Most songs consist of little more than a carefully finger-picked acoustic guitar and a wispy, disembodied voice that recalls Hope Sandoval's reverb-d...

For a gay, bald, chubby Jew, Matt Lucas is pretty comfortable in his own skin. Then again, the actor/comedian is perhaps better known for the multitude of other skins he inhabits in his BBC hit show _Little Bri...

Summary

"They just aren't pretty," my grandmother declared after walking in and quickly out of Zoe Strauss' solo exhibition at Silverstein Photography this past summer. I was startled. I had spent the last month visiti...

The market for gimmick books—shtick lit, as it were—has enjoyed a surprising shelf life. There are authors who pledge not to spend money for a year, those who promise to say yes to everything and, of course, th...