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• Late edition: 'State of Play' 

  As I write this it is 7:37 a.m., and I've just finished reading the morning paper. I started at 7:31 a.m. And I'm no speed reader. Our city's...

  Commonweal, 05/22/09 by Rand Richards Cooper · More from publication

• To the visible world: on worshiping John Updike 

  I knew that someday I would find myself writing this essay. I just didn't think it would be yet. If you'd put money on which American writer of the...

  Commonweal, 05/08/09 by Rand Richards Cooper · More from publication

• Fear & Self-loathing: 'Revolutionary Road' 

  The novelist Richard Yates, who died in 1992, was once called "a writer's writer's writer," a witty epithet for a career spent at a maddening...

  Commonweal, 02/27/09 by Rand Richards Cooper · More from publication

• Cake topper; 'Rachel Getting Married' 

  Jonathan Demme has had a long and varied career. After stints as a film critic, movie publicist, and TV director (including an episode of Columbo),...

  Commonweal, 11/21/08 by Rand Richards Cooper · More from publication

• Warriors' code: Kimberly Peirce's 'stop-loss' 

  The opening sequence of the new Iraq war film, Stop-Loss, portrays a U.S. Army squad caught in a terrifying fire-fight in the streets of Mosul....

  Commonweal, 04/25/08 by Rand Richards Cooper · More from publication

• Life & death: 'Juno' & 'Sweeney Todd' 

  I first heard about Jason Reitman's quirkily bighearted film Juno from an unlikely source: Rush Limbaugh. The maven of right-wing talk radio had...

  Commonweal, 01/31/08 by Rand Richards Cooper · More from publication

• Lost boys: 'In the Valley of Elah' & 'Into the Wild' 

  Is there an actor working today who conveys a more mythically American presence than Tommy Lee Jones? His endlessly fascinating face unites...

  Commonweal, 10/26/07 by Rand Richards Cooper · More from publication

• Identity crisis: 'The Bourne Ultimatum' 

  Of the cohort of boyish leading actors we've spent the last decade waiting to see turn into men, Matt Damon is the most surprising. For someone...

  Commonweal, 09/14/07 by Rand Richards Cooper · More from publication

• Baby on board 

  It has now been almost a year and a half since I embarked on what I think of as "late-onset fatherhood." Becoming a first-time parent this...

  Commonweal, 06/15/07 by Rand Richards Cooper · More from publication

• Driven: 'The Hoax' & 'An Unreasonable Man' 

  Do you remember the Clifford Irving scandal of long-ago 1971? The episode by now is little more than a footnote on a page of dreary American...

  Commonweal, 04/20/07 by Rand Richards Cooper · More from publication