Ariel Levy reviews Maira Kalman's The Principles of Uncertainty

At 25, he is a growing downtown legend, a graffiti writer turned artist with a beautiful face and a De Menil pedigree, elusive even to the two friends who created his myth. What happens if he’s caught?

Is white appropriate? What’s the right term for a groom who’s a woman? And what to say to her mother?

George Trow’s "Within the Context of No Context" was a brilliant, scary vision of a cultural end-time. Then, having described it, he lived it, spiraling into madness.

A victim of abuse as a child, briefly a prostitute as a young woman, Andrea Dworkin married a gay man and spent three decades fighting hypersexualized America. She lost.

When Gianni Versace was alive, Donatella Versace was happy in his shadow. But after he died and left her daughter, Allegra, the lion’s share of his company, the shadow got darker. It took her till now to get out from under it.

Spike Lee, along with his wife, Tonya Lewis, is wealthy, hugely successful, at the top of W.E.B. DuBois’s “Talented Tenth” of black society in America. But does that mean Spike has mellowed? Not so much.

'Money, a Memoir: Womens, Emotions and Cash' reviewed by Ariel Levy

"Cancer Vixen" reviewed by Ariel Levy

How Maureen Dowd became the most dangerous columnist in America.

Teenage boys have always lusted after attractive teachers, but what happens when they lust back?

In the new version of Alfie, the libidinous London cad of the original has been recast as Jude Law and reimagined as a strutting, preening, Prada-shoed Manhattan peacock, a male Carrie Bradshaw.

Young lesbians are going beyond feminist politics, beyond androgyny, to explore a new generation of sex roles.

For Political Wives, She Changed the Game Forever.

Robin Morgan in the Talk of the Town.

During the Bush years, satire was one of the Democrats' most potent weapons. But Al Franken's earnest campaign for senator raises the question: can politics and comedy coexist?