Nina Caplan|Metro5 April 2012
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DVD/Video: Kissing Jessica Stein

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 15, rental

Jessica (Jennifer Westfeldt) may be a super-demanding, neurotic Jewish girl with issues oozing from every pore, but she's nothing if not proactive. So eventually, sick of dating bores and trading insults with her ex, she answers a 'women seeking women' ad and meets Helen (Heather Juergensen), who's up for a spot of gay tourism. The non-stop laughs are milked from anything and everything: Helen's sexual forwardness and Jessica's neuroses, Judaism and dithering over whether to consummate the relationship or not. No extras on this rental version.

Book: Long Time Coming by Michael Lesy

Norton, £49.95

In the 1930s, the Farm Security Administration was formed to help farmers buy their land. Part of the FSA's job involved creating a 145,000-strong photographic collection of potential beneficiaries. These beautiful, tawdry pictures, with the residue of Depression sadness clinging to them, morphed from information to defensive dogmatism as the world around the photographers changed. Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange feature, but it's subjects, not authors, who count here: a fifth of these pictures are previously unpublished. Essential for anyone interested in America's past.

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