Society & Culture

Syndicated cartoonist Aron McGruder. His strip “The Boondocks” follows the escapades of Huey and Riley two brothers from the inner city sent to live with their grandfather in a Chicago surburb, where most of their neighbors are white. The strip is read in over 35 newspapers nationwide. MCGRUDER has been publishing it for four years and he hasn’t been shy about controvery. In his strip he’s taken on everyone from George W. Bush to rapper P. Diddy. MCGRUDER has several collections of the strip: “The Boondocks: Because I Know You don’t Read the Newspaper,” “Fresh For ’01. . .

Shirley Glass discusses "the new infidelity crisis." She's studied extramarital affairs since the mid 1970's and has written a new book called "NOT Just Friends: Protect Your Relationship from Infidelity and Heal the Trauma of Betrayal." She says that the workplace has become the new breeding ground for extramarital affairs. GLASS is, by the way, the mother of Ira Glass, of public radio's "This American Life."

She earned wide critical and popular acclaim and an Emmy for her work on The Garry Moore Show (from 1959-62). The Carol Burnett Show debuted in 1967 and won 22 Emmys in a run of more than a decade. She has starred or appeared in a number of TV movies and specials. In December, she'll be a Kennedy Center honoree for her body of work. In 1981 she struck a blow for fellow celebrities by winning a lawsuit against The National Enquirer tabloid. Her memoir One More Time was recently republished in a paperback edition. There's also a DVD collection of The Carol Burnett Show.

Nunberg talks about idiomatic expressions like "on the up and up." What does it mean when people interpret these sayings differently?

Film critic David Edelstein reviews the new Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill: Vol. 1.

Nunberg talks about terms used in racial classification, such as Caucasian.

Newman was nominated for a Tony last year for his role in Our Town, in a production that originated at his Connecticut theatre company. The production will soon be shown on PBS.

She stars in the new film Casa de Los Babys, by director John Sayles. She received a Golden Globe nomination for her starring role in the film Secretary. Her other films include Adaptation and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

His new semi-autobiographical novel, The Fortress of Solitude, tells the story of Dylan Ebdus, a white kid growing up in an African-American and Latino neighborhood in New York. His last novel, Motherless Brooklyn, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. His other books include Girl in Landscape and Amnesia Moon.

Film critic David Edelstein discusses Under the Tuscan Sun, based on the book of the same name.

Mizrahi is part of a new Turner Classic Movies series, Style in Motion, in which six fashion designers host an evening of classic Hollywood films that influenced their careers. The series runs Monday nights in October, with Mizrahi hosting Oct. 13.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews Woody Allen’s new comedy “Anything Else” starring Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews the new Sofia Coppola film, Lost in Translation. The film stars Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan considers Lucky Girls (Ecco), the debut short story collection by Nell Freudenberger.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews Once Upon A Time In the Midlands, starring Robert Carlyle.

Lahiri's new novel is The Namesake. Lahiri won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Interpreter of Maladies, her collection of short stories. She won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. The Namesake is about being an Indian immigrant in America, when the Ganguli family leaves Calcutta and settles in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Against Love: A Polemic by Laura Kipnis (Pantheon).

Film critic David Edelstein reviews Thirteen, starring Holly Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood.

Writer Daniel Glick's new book is Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, and a Journey to the Ends of The Earth. After Glick's wife left him for another woman, and his older brother died, he took his two children, ages 9 and 13, on a trip around the world, seeking out endangered places. Glick was a Newsweek correspondent for 12 years, and has written for many other publications including Rolling Stone and The New York Times.

Maureen Corrigan reviews Breaking Her Fall by Stephen Goodwin.