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They always say love comes along when you least expect it, when you're not looking for it, or both. If that's true, Ilana, the lovely but despondent protagonist of Rajiv Joseph's alternately wrenching and funny ''Animals Out of Paper,'' should meet her prince any minute now. Ilana (Kellie Overbey) is going through a divorce; her normally devoted elderly dog has run away; she has lost her apartment and moved into her appallingly messy art studio; and she hasn't answered her phone in two months. She lies around in her bathrobe all day, keeping herself alive on takeout Sichuan beef. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the art exhibition "Imprints: Works on Paper" at the Axis Gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City.

Reviews the book "The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib," edited by Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel, with an introduction by Anthony Lewis.

Reviews the art show "The Paper Sculpture Show," to be featured at the Sculpture Center in Queens, New York City through December 7, 2003.

The article reviews the book "Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not About Marriage" by Pete Dexter and edited by Rob Fleder.

The article reviews several books, including "War Posters: Weapons of Mass Communication," by James Aulich, "Street Art and the War on Terror: How the World's Best Graffiti Artists Said No to the Iraq War," edited by Eleanor Mathieson, and "Rolling Paper Graphics," by Jose Lorente Cascales.

The article reviews several books including "Exotic Postcards: The Lure of Distant Lands," by Alan Beukers, "Bombshell: The Life and Crimes of Claw Money," by Claw Money and "Sticker City: Paper Graffiti Art," by Claudia Walde.

Is paper passe? Your answer will most likely depend on whether you're reading this sentence on newsprint or on a screen. But it's safe to say that artists and designers aren't ready to quit the stuff, at least by the measure of the latest show at the Museum of Arts and Design. They are, however, willing to pierce, shred, carve and slice it. ''Slash: Paper Under the Knife,'' the third show in the museum's Materials and Process series, explores the sometimes violent, always intricate art of paper cutting. (It follows ''Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting'' and ''Pricked: Extreme Embroidery'' in 2007 and 2008.) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

\hye article reviews the book "American Paper Mills, 1690-1832: A Directory of the Paper Trade With Notes on Products, Watermarks, Distribution Methods, and Manufacturing Techniques," by John Bidwell.

The article reviews the exhibition "Zarina: Paper Like Skin," by Zarina Hashmi at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City until April 21, 2013.

The article previews the exhibition "Works on Paper 1976-1977" at David Zwirner's Chelsea gallery in New York City through June 29, 2013, which will feature works on paper made by German abstract artist Blinky Palermo.

At the outset of Nick Jasenovec's ''Paper Heart,'' the actress and comedian Charlyne Yi (playing a purportedly fictional version of herself) claims neither to need nor believe in romantic love. Over the course of the movie, however, she will be nudged toward conformity by two parallel forces: the actual testimonies of firm believers and the fictional unfolding of a fumbling affair. And since this is an American story, Ms. Yi's conversion will come about in the quintessentially American way: as the result of a road trip. An unconvincing mash-up of the real and the fake, ''Paper Heart'' wavers between identities to no clear purpose and to its considerable creative detriment. The clumsy premise follows Ms. Yi and a director (named Nick Jasenovec but played by Jake Johnson) as they solicit love stories from a variety of regular Americans, most of whom are delightful and none of whom appears to be in on the movie's meta-joke. Rather these segments, cherry-picked to enhance a loosely predetermined narrative (by Ms. Yi and Mr. Jasenovec), serve chiefly as props for a scripted romance between the leading lady and the actor Michael Cera, an attachment so tentative and pathologically gawky that it's almost painful to watch. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Folded paper transcends mere craft in the Parrish Art Museum's exhibition ''Paper Transformed -- Origami.'' Here is an astonishing array of lifelike animals made of nothing but folded paper. Some of them are life-size, like a heron, its neck crooked, greeting visitors at the entrance to the show. The nearly 100 sculptures on display here, by the world's leading contemporary origami artists, were made without cutting or gluing. According to the book that accompanies the exhibition, many of the pieces were made with a single sheet of paper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If ''The Hills'' is an indictment of 20-something women behaving as if they were not yet old enough for bat mitzvahs, ''The Paper,'' a new reality series following it on Monday nights on MTV, is a different kind of exercise in ageism. It plays into stereotypes of overscheduled teenagers who run around with goals of world domination, who believe that an advanced-placement class is license to act as though they were 42. It's ''Election'' all over again. Set at what we are told is an award-wining newspaper, The Circuit, at Cypress Bay High School in Florida, ''The Paper'' revolves around the ambitions of an embattled staff of students, led by an editor in chief whose arrogance would surely alienate even a horde of mosquitoes. To say that Amanda is the editor is not much of a spoiler since she gets the job pretty quickly. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews several exhibitions including "Zarina: Paper Like Skin" at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan, New York City through April 21, 2013, "Matisse: In Search of True Painting" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, New York City through March 17, 2013 and "Blues for Smoke" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan, New York City through April 28, 2013.

The article reviews the exhibition "Electricity Paper Vinyl..." at the Petzel Gallery in New York City, through February 16, 2013.

''Paper Man'' is an intelligent, meticulously constructed, well-acted movie that has been written to death. As it inches toward a moony catharsis, this whimsical/melancholy exploration of writer's block and middle-aged angst builds an elaborate, symbolic framework to justify the attention it lavishes on its hapless protagonist, Richard Dunne (Jeff Daniels), a novelist. An eccentric man-child struggling to begin his second book, Richard has rented a rundown house on the South Shore of Long Island during the off-season, leaving his wife, Claire (Lisa Kudrow), a curt, humorless cardiovascular surgeon, in New York City on weekdays. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]