Email Author Brendan Bernhard

2004 Stories by Brendan Bernhard

• The Coffee Table

  published December 16, 2004

  Photo by Edouard BoubatPerhaps we should begin our roundup of the season’s coffee-table books from a lordly, even astral height... More >>

• White Muslim

  published December 2, 2004

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• White Muslim

  published December 2, 2004

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• The Red Stuff

  published November 18, 2004

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• The Music of Words

  published October 21, 2004

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• What If?

  published October 14, 2004

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• Au Contraire, Monsieur Boosh

  published September 30, 2004

  Why, on a wildly rainy September night in New York, would Dominique de Villepin give a speech in a bunkerlike auditorium two floors below the... More >>

• Agent Provocateur

  published September 30, 2004

  Photo courtesy Everett/CSU Archives OF ALL THE GREAT 20th-century novelists, Graham Greene (1904–1991) has always seemed the mos... More >>

• The American Nightmare

  published September 16, 2004

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• Fox Convention II

  published September 9, 2004

  The day after the Republican convention I ran into a fellow scribe, busily clicking away at his sunlit laptop, on the terrace of a café i... More >>

• Age of Innocence

  published September 9, 2004

  Novelists, unlike rock stars, often improve with age. Which is especially appropriate in Julian Barnes’ case, because Th... More >>

• The Fox Convention

  published September 2, 2004

  “The Europeans are impotent, are they not?” barked Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly at Pat Buchanan a couple... More >>

• The Ideal Elegist

  published August 26, 2004

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• Tempest From a Teapot

  published August 5, 2004

  Illustrations by Julie West Activism used to be arduous. Not anymore. Click a button, move a mouse, and bingo — you’re in the world of onli... More >>

• Life of a Dodo

  published July 15, 2004

  Illustration by Stephan Britt The dodo, for those who aren’t up on their ornithology, is a bird that became extinct late in th... More >>

• Deaniacs for Kerry (More or Less)

  published June 10, 2004

  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Howard Dean was shouting into the microphone, and nobody could hear a word he was saying. The crowd at last week’s Ta... More >>

• Meeting Al-Jazeera

  published June 3, 2004

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• Unobstructed

  published June 3, 2004

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• Al-Gorezeerah

  published May 20, 2004

  I was amused to learn about Al Gore’s purchase of the 24-hour Canadian cable news service, Newsworld International (NWI), probably the bes... More >>

• The Beater meets the Swan

  published May 13, 2004

  Cars, like wobbly buttocks and pigsty apartments, deserve makeovers too. That’s the message of Pimp My Ride (MTV, Sundays at 9:3... More >>

• African Idol

  published May 6, 2004

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• McNuts

  published April 29, 2004

  First-time filmmaker Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me is a lean, zippy documentary about growing bloated and lethargic. A record... More >>

• From Latvia with Love

  published April 29, 2004

  Short stories are in danger of becoming the poems of 21st-century literature — the parts of august publications like Harper’s, T... More >>

• That Fucking Deadwood

  published April 22, 2004

  Photo by Sam Emerson After a couple of episodes I was ready to write off Deadwood (HBO, Sun., 10 p.m.) as a dead bore, but now, dammit,... More >>

• Love and Politics Actually

  published April 15, 2004

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