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1999 Stories by Claire Dederer

• Au revoir les enfants

  published July 21, 1999

  THE MALE GAZE and the female perspective: Director Eric Rohmer has always seemed to teeter between two ways of seeing. Poll a few girl... More >>

• After thought

  published July 14, 1999

  THE TALKING HEADS sang that "Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens." Well, close. Turns out heaven is a place where only... More >>

• Different Strokes

  published June 30, 1999

  THE MEDIA HAVE depicted Summer of Sam both as Spike Lee's first film with an all-white and Hispanic cast, and as his first really... More >>

• The laugh wrack

  published June 30, 1999

  TELL A ROOMFUL of regular people that one of your top 10 favorite films is Billy Madison, and all of a sudden everyone becomes... More >>

• God, mod

  published June 23, 1999

  A HANDSOME MAN dashes through a New York subway terminal. A dark-haired sylph scurries alongside him. Synthy rock pulses. The images... More >>

• Welcome to the Day After Tomorrow

  published June 2, 1999

  The morning I finished reading Turn of the Century, The New York Times reported that an ocean liner had sunk... More >>

• You're Gonna Make It After All

  published April 14, 1999

  Literature has its rich consolations, but most of us prefer the cheap ones—books that comfort us, books that while away... More >>

• Deep and weird

  published March 17, 1999

  THERE ARE A COUPLE of ways to make people give a damn about what you have to say: You can tell a tale of surpassing strangeness and... More >>

• Books Quarterly: Provincials at Play

  published March 3, 1999

  In California, all the leaves are brown, and Mary Morris thinks she's the first one to notice. In a misguided new memoir,... More >>