Family

In every issue

Editors' Letter
Dear Bitch
Love It/Shove It
Book—reviews
Music—Reviews
Back Page—Curb your consumption with Buy Nothing Day.

Columns

||| Documenting "The Cucumber Incident"
||| an open letter to Carnie Wilson
||| An interview with author/web diarist/Anne Heche impersonator Pamela Ribon
||| The Golden Girls vs. Sex and the City
||| quiz: Which Coppola are you?
||| an annotated guide to boarding school movies

Features

||| Telegenetics—A brief history of TV families Plus: Who let the family-values watchdogs out?
||| Unmarried...With Children—The trials of the silver-screen single mom
||| Hitting Where It Hurts—The uneasy marriage of domestic abuse and pop psychology. Plus: Hollywood's take on family violence
||| Three's Company—A look at sisterhood in triplicate
||| Exile on Main Street—An interview with graphic memoirist Marjane Satrapi
||| Queer and Pleasant Danger—On the representational politics of the gayby boom