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• Louise Erdrich: “The Years of My Birth.”

The nurse had wrapped my brother in a blue flannel blanket and was just about to hand him to his mother when she whispered, “Oh, God, there’s another one,” and out I slid, half dead. I then proceeded to die in earnest, going from slightly pink . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Smart Car Wheels – Let Them Roll

This does require a very low profile tire like the Pirelli P Nero Zero at 195/40/17. Some owners have complained about periodical rubbing, but that is what is to be expected when a wheel 2 inches larger than stock is placed on a car....

• Books: “The Uncoupling.”

Stellar Plains, the setting of Wolitzer’s latest novel, is an unremarkable New Jersey suburb, where wives rave about a grocery store as if it were a sex club and a night out means dinner at Peppercorns, with “its long, looming salad bar that made you remember that . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Sasha Frere-Jones: The British dubstep duo Nero at (Le) Poisson Rouge.

The English genre known as dubstep has flourished just as its precursors—garage and drum and bass—did: by letting sounds unfold over the generous course of a d.j.’s evening. Pop songs don’t have that kind of spare time, but they’re always . . ....

• Louise Erdrich: Mushrooms and guinea-pig fertilizer in an abundant garden.

My parents had a large family to feed on a North Dakota schoolteacher’s salary. They taught us to garden, and to relish the unexpected. I once opened our freezer to find a large raccoon, which I don’t remember eating. Years later, I asked my father how . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Peter Schjeldahl: “Your History Is Not Our History,” at Haunch of Venison.

8220;Your History Is Not Our History” is a smart, odd show of vintage works by an ecumenical array of twenty New York art stars of the nineteen-eighties, from the turbulent Julian Schnabel to the icy Louise Lawler. What’s peculiar is the site: high in a . . ....

• David Denby: Michel Hazanavicius’s “The Artist” and the lost art of silent films.

After seeing Michel Hazanavicius’s exuberant and playful French silent movie “The Artist,” I found myself thinking of Louise Brooks’s back—her bare back, which she employed to such devastating dramatic effect as Lulu, in “Pandora’s Box” (1929), the German . . ....

• Goings on About Town: On the Horizon

MOVIES ROMAN EMPIRE Sept. 7-30 The acclaim that Roman Polanski received for his first feature, “Knife in the Water,” which he made in his native Poland, launched him into a long career that has included such classics as “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Chinatown&#8221 . . ....

• Ariel Levy: : Have Italians had enough of Silvio Berlusconi—and the culture he embodies?

In 2008, during his fourth campaign to become Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi released a video in which a beautiful blond woman, standing in a grocery store beside a pile of bananas, sings, “There’s a big dream that lives in all of us.” A throng . . ....

• Sarah Paley: The Fat Off at Jeffrey’s Grocery.

8220;Ooooh, socks on! Such confidence!” “Let’s get this over with, guys!” Anxious male voices filled the dim basement of the restaurant Fedora, on West Fourth Street, one recent morning, as a flurry of shirts and pants were thrown to the floor. An assortment of . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Anthony Lane: “Robin Hood.”

What do you get if you mix “Gladiator,” “The Return of Martin Guerre,” “Saving Private Ryan,” “Elizabeth,” “Troy,” “The Seventh Seal,” and a hundred buckets of mud? The answer is “Robin Hood”—the latest version . . ....

• Anthony Lane: The long, strange history of 3-D.

Did you enjoy “Rottweiler”? How about “Bwana Devil” or “Black Lolita”? Maybe you preferred “International Stewardesses,” although you might know it under the more thoughtful title of “Supersonic Supergirls.” You will not need reminding that these are among the crowning . . ....

• Anthony Lane: “Nine,” “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus,” “The Young Victoria,” and “A Single Man.”

The beginning of “Nine” feels like an end. The first words we hear are “You kill your film,” uttered at a press conference by an Italian movie director named Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis). We then find him at the Cinecittà film studios, in Rome . . ....

• Medicated Shampoos and the Benefits For Your Pets

There are countless medicines on the market to help your pets with practically everything they may be suffering from. These medications may be available at the nearest pet store or even the nearest grocery store, or you may have to pick them up after they are prescribed by your veterinarian....

• Books: “Verdi’s Shakespeare” review.

In the essays collected here, Wills examines how Verdi—who, though he did not read English, “adored Shakespeare”—composed and staged “Macbeth,” “Otello,” and “Falstaff,” all “solid masterpieces,” and the latter two “arguably the greatest things he . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Thomas McGuane: “The Good Samaritan.”

Szabo didn’t like to call the land he owned and lived on a ranch—a word that was now widely abused by developers. He preferred to call it his property, or “the property,” but it did require a good bit of physical effort from him . . . (Subscription required.)...

• David Denby: “Source Code” and “Meek’s Cutoff.”

8220;Source Code,” a techno-thriller about a dead man who tries to save Chicago from nuclear destruction, is much more enjoyable than “Inception,” “The Adjustment Bureau,” “Limitless,” and other fantastical jaunts of recent seasons. The movie may begin as a sci-fi . . . (Subscription required.)...

• David Denby: “True Grit,” “The Company Men,” “Somewhere,” and “The Tempest.”

In “True Grit,” the Coen brothers’ enjoyably astringent remake of the maudlin John Wayne Western from 1969, the characters all speak in formal diction. They abjure contractions (typical sentence: “He has abandoned me to a congress of louts”), and they avoid the fanciful, “fuck . . . (Subscription required.)...

• David Denby: “True Grit,” “The Company Men,” “Somewhere,” and “The Tempest.”

In “True Grit,” the Coen brothers’ enjoyably astringent remake of the maudlin John Wayne Western from 1969, the characters all speak in formal diction. They abjure contractions (typical sentence: “He has abandoned me to a congress of louts”), and they avoid the fanciful, “fuck . . . (Subscription required.)...

• David Owen: The stars of “Oddities” on Science Channel.

Among the many items on display at Obscura Antiques & Oddities, on Avenue A between Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets, is a leathery, somnolent-looking human head. “It’s an old medical preparation,” Evan Michelson, who is one of the store’s two co-owners, explained. &#8220 . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi: “Gilgul.”

8220;You know,” she said almost shyly, “that I have the ability, if you wish, to look into your eyes and tell you when you will die?” “No, I didn’t realize you could do that.” He hesitated for a moment. “And I . . . (Subscription required.)...

• George Saunders: “Escape from Spiderhead.”

8220;Drip on?” Abnesti said over the P.A. “What’s in it?” I said. “Hilarious,” he said. “Acknowledge,” I said. Abnesti used his remote. My MobiPak™ whirred. Soon the Interior Garden looked really nice. Everything seemed super-clear. I said out . . ....

• Anthony Lane: “Bad Teacher,” “Terri,” and “The Names of Love.”

Waiting for “Bad Teacher” to begin, I caught a trailer for the upcoming “Horrible Bosses.” What is it with these titles? Studios may think that they can palm us off with flat, sour recitations of what their products contain, but, back in 1975, no one would . . ....

• Anthony Lane: “The Debt” and “Gainsbourg.&#8221

The first twenty minutes of “The Debt” are a mess. We flash back and forward in time, flit from one location to the next, and soon arrive at the conclusion that the director, John Madden, must have pressed “Shuffle” rather than “Play.” Gradually, things . . ....

• Anthony Lane: “The Future,” “Another Earth,” and “Cowboys & Aliens.”

To call a movie “The Future” is, if you think about it, inspired. In any city where the film is playing, people will say to one another, “Have you seen ‘The Future’? ” If the title is doomed to cause misunderstanding, that is part of . . ....

• John Lahr: “Seminar” and “Private Lives” reviews.

Alan Rickman is the go-to actor for supercilious. Over the years, in screen roles as various as the Sheriff of Nottingham in “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,” Colonel Brandon in “Sense and Sensibility,” Hans Gruber in “Die Hard,” and Severus Snape in the . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Mike Peed: “Edi & the Wolf,” in the East Village.

paragraph class="noindent">At this new Austrian tavern, wedged into an increasingly companionable stretch of Alphabet City, “Edi” is pronounced “Eddie” and “the Wolf” does not refer to Harvey Keitel’s character in “Pulp Fiction.” These are the nicknames of the . . ....

• Anthony Lane: “Green Zone” and “Mother.”

The fact that “Green Zone” begins with a bombing raid should come as no surprise, given that the director is Paul Greengrass. He made two of the “Bourne” films and “United 93,” and his attitude to the average viewer remains that of a salad . . ....