Mar 3rd, 2008 · Ayno Maina looks like a gated community you might find in southern California -- except that it's in southern Afghanistan. The homes are affordable, but security concerns and a dispute with the government are making them a hard sell.
Oct 7th, 2006 · In American fiction, TV and film, suburbia has long stood as shorthand for repression. It's a place of "wide lawns and narrow minds," as Earnest Hemingway put it. But representations of the suburbs have taken on a different shape of late.
Jan 11th, 2006 · The American Hunter: Going Extinct January 11, 2006 · Commentator Frank Deford laments the dwindling number of hunters in the America. He says suburbia, and its affection for big-eyed deer, are putting hunting out of style, and out of reach.
Feb 4th, 2005 · His book Little Children has just come out in paperback. It's a satirical take on parenthood and suburbia. One reviewer writes of the book: "It represents a sterling comic contribution to the growing literature of the Bad Mommy and Bad Daddy." Perrotta is also the author of the novels Joe College and Election, which was made into the 1999 movie of the same name. (This interview was originally broadcast on April 12, 2004.)
Oct 1st, 2004 · TV critic David Bianculli reviews Desperate Housewives, a new series that takes a dark look at suburbia.