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Byline: KEN TUCKER On an icy December morning, Rosanne Cash was making tea in the kitchen of the Chelsea brownstone she shares with her husband, the producer-songwriter-guitarist John Leventhal, and [...]

'DAMAGES' may be all about Glenn Close as the she-devil lawyer Patty Hewes, but no one would ever sue her for not sharing the spotlight. Now in its second season, […]

WELL before he won an Oscar for 'Cat Ballou' (1965) or made revenge an almost abstract art in John Boorman's 'Point Blank' (1967), Lee Marvin logged television time starring in […]

WHO: Sheryl Crow. WHEN: 9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. WHERE: Fillmore New York, 17 Irving Plaza, Manhattan. Ticketmaster. HOW MUCH: $43.50. WHERE TO LISTEN: sherylcrow.com. NEW CD: 'Detours' in stores [...]

Television journalism doesn't get much more participatory than 'Surviving Sudan,' a first-person plummet into the hellish conditions under which the displaced natives of Darfur live. Sorious Samura, the reporter and […]

THE reason that the large man's arm encircling my throat continues to cut off all air to my windpipe is because, of course, I'm having trouble with my groin strike. […]

TIMES Square is a magnet for moviemakers drawn to both its bright lights and a darkness that can be magical or menacing. These 10 films, spanning a half-century, showcase the […]

ARRIVING at a time when an awful lot of people know Willie Nelson mainly as that troll-like hippie with a shaving-creamed beard in a current TV commercial spoofing his run-ins […]

THE THOUSAND WELLS Poems. By Adam Kirsch. 76 pp. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. $18.95. Steely technical skill often contradicts the tender feelings and humility invoked throughout Adam Kirsch's first poetry […]

MIND CATCHER By John Darnton. 387 pp. New York: Dutton. $25.95. Few writers working the territory John Darnton does in his novels 'Neanderthal' (1996), 'The Experiment' (1999) and now 'Mind […]

ANYTHING GOES By Madison Smartt Bell. 306 pp. New York: Pantheon Books. $24. ROCK 'n' ROLL has long exerted a pull on novelists. There's something alluring about trying to capture […]

Cynthia Zarin knows that sometimes all that's needed to raise ordinary speech to poetic richness is a single, right word -- for instance, she describes winter branches as being 'furred […]

INSECT DREAMS The Half Life of Gregor Samsa. By Marc Estrin. 468 pp. New York: BlueHen Books/ G. P. Putnam's Sons. $26.95. EVERYONE remembers the beginning of Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' […]

They're an odd, self-consciously neurotic bunch, one that includes a superhero with skin so unbearably sensitive to others' bodies that their rapid heartbeats or 'the saliva rushing around their mouths' […]

THE NEW CITY By Stephen Amidon. 445 pp. New York: Doubleday. $24.95. DON'T you feel a small surge of anticipation when you open up a novel and find a map […]

THE first glimpse we get of the title character in director Hayao Miyazaki's extraordinary feature-length cartoon 'Princess Mononoke' is of the teen-age, forest-dwelling princess in wolf-skin clothing clutching a knife, […]

QUICK, think back to 'The Big Chill,' Lawrence Kasdan's 1983 comic drama about baby-boomer friendship and dashed idealism, with the ghost of a Kevin Costner performance left on the cutting-room […]

AT the age of 24, Rufus Wainwright is tall and lanky, with long, pointed sideburns shaped like knife blades. The songs he sings on his remarkably assured, beguiling debut album, […]

IT MAY BE THE SUMMER'S IDEAL alternative to all those eardrum exploding movie blockbusters, or your continuing struggle to hold Thomas Pynchon's 'Mason & Dixon' upright when your hands are […]

THIRTY-SIX YEARS AGO, 'The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart' became the first album of stand-up comedy routines to reach No. 1 on Billboard's album chart. Mr. Newhart's sly, low-key monologues […]

JOHN PRINE'S LUMINOUS NEW album, 'Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings,' takes you on a journey. It goes from hope to despair -- Mr. Prine's favorite trail -- with side trips […]

NINE YEARS AGO, Allen Ginsberg wrote in the introduction to his 'Collected Poems 1947-1980' that he was now creating work for 'electronic laser TV generations that don't read Dostoyevsky.' Certainly […]

WHEN DAVID BYRNE came to prominence as the lead singer for the seminal New York punk-era band Talking Heads, what distinguished him from the general run of rock vocalists was […]

Rodney Crowell: 'Let the Picture Paint Itself' MCA MCAD-11042; CD and cassette. Few country-music performers would come up with the Zenlike philosophy that characterizes the title song of Rodney Crowell's […]

THE MELANCHOLY contemplativeness that suffuses much of Bonnie Raitt's rich new album 'Longing in Their Hearts' may take some of her more recent converts by surprise. If you're among those […]

'I'M HAVING THE TIME OF MY life/ Or something quite like it,' Elvis Costello sings on his raucous, caustic new album, 'Brutal Youth.' The couplet reminds a listener that this […]

When The Who released its rock opera 'Tommy' in 1969, people who didn't like it criticized the ambitious double album as bombastic, pretentious and obvious. Who'd have thought that these […]

Focuses on the animated motion picture `Princess Mononoke,' directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Information on Japanese animation; Voices in the animation movie; Features of the film; Overview of the animation's plot; Discussion on Hayao Miyazaki.

Focuses on the dramatic presentation of `Benjamin Bagby's `Beowulf,' at the Lincoln Center Festival '97 on July 20-21, 1997. Details on `Beowulf'; Background information on Bagby.

Reviews the pop music album `Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings,' by singer-songwriter John Prine.

Focuses on Rufus Wainwright, a singer, who has made his debut album `Rufus Wainwright' with his father, Loudon. Names of Loudon's songs; Reason Rufus avoids autobiographical lyrics; Information on Rufus and Loudon.