In Praise of Lipstick and False Bosoms, Weapons of War
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Long before suffragettes shackled  themselves to railings and women's libbers burned their bras,  female freedom fighters were waging a more covert war, using  lipstick, mascara and false bosoms as weapons.
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TOF 111: "Closer" and Hollywood's fear of erotic intimacy
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Western knockoffs and Islamic bling: Debunking some popular stereotypes of life in Iran.
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A taste of the latest in food memoirs, a thriving literary genre
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A review of the Anna Sui, Brian Reyes, Marc by Marc Jacobs and Philip Lim collections.
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Little Miss Sunshine makes fun of self-help gurus, beauty pageants, Proust and other wide targets
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Asked to express their opinions about the war in Iraq, the mostly unidentified subjects of this documentary polemic are only too happy to make fools of themselves.
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There's a war brewing in the music world. And it's a war that can only do good.
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Hollywood's earnest antiwar films were a bomb at the box office. But Mike Nichols' picture about war and politics, says Richard Corliss, manages to be both rational and inspirational
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The formerly outrÃ©, freaky and unthinkable now constitute business as usual in popular culture. And these have become outright selling points for books that eagerly capitalize on their kinks.
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As the holiday season approaches, book lists fill the entertainment sections of newspapers: fiction and non-fiction, prize winners of all sorts, the ubiquitous coffee-table large-format illustrated tomes, and children's literature. For me, it's always a tempting feast. It's an opportunity to expand my personal library or find a gift for someone special.
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Kitty Kelley&#39;s catty new book about the Bush family is a perfect artifact of our current political culture in which unsubstantiated attacks on Sen. John Kerry&#39;s Vietnam War record and old
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Mock tattoos are becoming a pop culture staple, cropping up in films and on the playing field, in advertising campaigns and on the pages of fashion magazines.
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Arts & entertainment: Aristophanes' Lysistrata was about the power of women in a time of war. Blake Morrison felt an update was overdue.
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Patricia FoulkrodÂs documentary about the war in Iraq stands out as an especially pointed indictment of the American militaryÂs treatment of its own people on and off the battlefield.
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âFactory Girl,â a biography of Edie Sedgwick, the most glamorous of Andy Warholâs so-called superstars, suggests a magazine layout masquerading as a film.
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"Tree of Smoke" (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, 624 pages. $27.00), by Denis Johnson: Who needs another book about the Vietnam War this late in the game, with so many other national scars to pick at since then?