Michael and me

The Whoops-O-Matic

The week in dirt

"Desolation" by Yasmina Reza

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W" by Gabriel Brownstein

"Nowhere Man" by Aleksandar Hemon

"Family Matters" by Rohinton Mistry

"Porno" by Irvine Welsh

What to read in October

More on Bush, Harken and Harvard

"Regime change" -- and then what?

President Bush's distorted case for war

Everything happens for a reason I make up

Literary daybook, Oct. 11

"Tuck Everlasting"

Letters

In their own words

Running with the bad girls

MOSEX opens doors -- earth doesn't move

Ask the pilot

Material twirl

Letters