Cheating on a Cheater, Perfectly Annoying Mommy, and Greedy French Fiancée

Dear Delphi, I know my husband has been cheating on me. He also knows that I know, because I hired a private investigator who nailed him red-handed. I wanted to get back at him, ...

The Mormons Go Mainstream!

America's Great Weird Religion hit Manhattan's Great White Way last Thursday night as South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone premiered their musical The Book of Mormon to ...

Mama Tried, You Failed

"€œMama Tried"€ is a popular prison tattoo and a tear-jerking Merle Haggard country ballad. The 1968 classic tells the tale of Merle breaking his mother's heart by going to ...

Anne Roiphe

The Big Bagel Bites Back

NEW YORK—Twenty-two years or so ago, I wrote a column for The New York Observer, a weekly paper owned by a tycoon named Arthur Carter. He had come up the hard way and made his ...

Antaeus by William Blake

Hercules in the Desert

Antaeus was a Libyan giant whose strength appeared invincible. One day he challenged the mighty Hercules to a wrestling match. Each time Antaeus was thrown to the ground, he rose ...

Win Win: So-So

In Win Win, Paul Giamatti (perhaps best known for 2004's Sideways) plays a nice-guy lawyer, Mike Flaherty, who also coaches his old high school's wrestling squad. His family-law ...

World’s Worst Best Friend, Roman Rumblings, Freezing and Friendless

Dear Delphi, I"€™ve had a crush on my best friend's husband for the past five years. I have never acted on my crush because I thought it was just me, plus she is my best ...

Nuclear Holocaust Denial

Japan has endured a three-headed monster of colossal catastrophes over the past ten days"€”a 9.0 earthquake, a tsunami with 30-foot crests, and an unresolved nuclear-reactor ...

10 Things I Learned About the South

In 1831, Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville came to America. Four years later, he published an outsider's perspective of the culture that remained the gold standard for exactly 176 ...

Lynda Benglis

Art: Scene and Unseen

Thursday night is opening night at the Chelsea galleries in New York. But, an art opening is not a good place to look at art because there are too many distractions. Nor is it is ...

Araki

No Sex Please, We’re Japanese

Last week was the 70th anniversary of the Café de Paris bombing during the London Blitz of 1940-41. By March of 1941 most Londoners had learned to take shelter underground when ...

Barbarians at the Gate

GSTAAD—I’ve got the end-of-season blues. I know I say this every year, but this has been a particularly fun winter, with friends throwing goodbye parties, dinners, and lunches ...

Mia Wasikowska

An Agreeably Plain Jane Eyre

The latest movie adaptation of Jane Eyre is slowly rolling out nationally via art-house theaters, but the plot of Charlotte Brontë's three-volume novel remains wonderfully ...

Gay Old Dad, Secret-Agent Son, and Pesky Pack-Rat Partner

Dear Delphi, I am 25 and my 56-year-old dad, who is still married to my mother, just came out and announced his intention to leave us for his lover"€”his male lover. He was ...

Can Japan Rise Again?

We can thank Providence that the earthquake was not 150 miles closer to Tokyo, else Japan’s dead might number in the millions. Prime Minister Naoto Kan calls it the worst ...

Blacks Rape Preteen Hispanic in Texas, Whites Get Blamed

Over one cruelly protracted evening last November in the tiny Texas town of Cleveland"€”up in the ragged piney woods fifty miles northeast of the giant flying-cockroach ...


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