A question of comic judgment; attractive Kryptonite ashtrays; impatience with literary fiction; gay abandon
February 2006
A lot of stuff about farting and wanking; Major Reading Experiences; Jay Gatsbergen and David Copperbottom
March 2006
A new tradition; Puff Diddle; jolly Ukrainian songs; defining the beginning of sexual intercourse; our impending death
April 2006
Comparisons with Nikki Sixx; sea-creature combos; the price of egg burritos in America; use of the first-person plural
May 2006
Notes on a shelving system; the English equivalent of Oprah; musings on a lunar module; unintentional comic élan
June / July 2006
A very grim month; brotherhood on the road; histrionics from Abraham Lincoln; Arsenal makes the semifinals
August 2006
Crushing disappointment; life in Mississippi; stuffier compatriots; small beer; the fruits of a Southern kick; clumsy crabs
September 2006
Opinions about scientists; clever cynics; the flop and bawl; a spousal downgrade; the worth of weddings and the World Cup
October 2006
A scary woman; visiting with permafrost experts; an offer from ExxonMobil; toothless writers’ unions
April 2007
Endless craving for misery; a double burial; experimental novels from Slovenia; advice on how to deal with favorites
May 2007
The musical taste of iPods; reconsidering dated smut; thoughts on tinned food; devout Catholic wives
June / July 2007
Breakfast Frappuccinos; bacon-flavored potato chips; effortless use of the American vernacular; lippy kids
August 2007
Index entries on Greil Marcus; life behind the Berlin Wall; antinomians; up with fiction, down with facts
September 2007
The end of the world; kitchen gizzard experiments; a passable Mick Jagger impersonation; a blank-verse novel about werewolves
October 2007
Defending the honor of a pink book; the death of God; ten adult books that aren’t boring; weird chimes
November / December 2007
Helpful cake analogies; hamstring trouble; unreadable Marxist pamphlets; a middle-class twat; doublethink
January 2008
A fact-finding mission; sex education; writers with an eye on posterity; a sun-lounger in France; lovable Millennials
February 2008
Learning to read; a state of bolshiness; a hydrocephalic weakling; cricketers; Titmus, F. J.; hints on a proposed lordship
March / April 2008
Stuff he’s been watching; misery memoirs; unpleasant people doing unkind things; a fascist-killing machine; Juno backlash
May 2008
The fate of a man tired of books; an increase of snazz; the delivery of an unsporting thumping; mortgage payments on boxes
September 2008
Specialization on Doctor Dolittle; breakfast made by a chimp; tolerance of a bare breast; a temporary farewell
May 2010
Learning from eHow; the old days; nude tableaux vivants; failed moneymaking schemes; delicate moral complications
June 2010
An invitation to the Oscars; iconic NHS spectacle styles; the postwar Labour government; LitCologne
July / August 2010
Advice from the Brits; tragicomedy; the Lost Booker Prize; a novel-shaped Manhattan; a pisseur de copie
September 2010
The return of the Scientist of the Month award; small males; possible roles for Miley Cyrus; words from Lorne Michaels
October 2010
Painfully cold sponsored parties; a hunky bad boy; Negative Twenty Questions; the moments on which a life turns
November / December 2010
Shakespeare’s most Tarantinoesque works; instructions on making yogurt; the time before funk; the Mau Mau uprising
January 2011
Literary fattism; sick burns by Dickens’s contemporaries; the difference between Scottish and Irish; Bose headphones
February 2011
Postman Pat; an MP3 of Elizabeth Bishop; diarrhea in the book; the universal love of Céline Dion; good goals and bad goals
March / April 2011
Victimhood; characters who are quite clearly creeps; a gift from the president; cells that grow like kudzu
May 2011
New forms of inadequacy; married bliss; curious descriptors for lovemaking; the Dillon Panthers; homework
June 2011
A worthy opponent; the Hawaiians’ need for the Bible; the favorite television program of Mr. Gum; a bald assertion
July / August 2011
A certain yen; a surprising anecdote; incomprehensible improbability; a man possessing the necessary anxiety; required reading
September 2011
A string of presumptions; the definition of monogamy; Democracy Versus Hot Sex; an ode to Body Shop Vanilla Shower Gel
October 2011
Chopsticks; an example of womanizing both real and prodigious; the gray North Sea; an endorsement of the Waboba ball
