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FEATURES

X-Rated By Joyce Millman
The love between X-Files agents Mulder and Scully need not speak its name. But it's still nice to imagine.

Change Your Life FOREVER: God's Warriors in the 3rd Millennium By Denis Johnson
The acclaimed writer takes a journey to the outer limits of faith at a biker revival meeting in Texas. This SALON Special is available in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) for optimal downloading and printing.

The Skater's Schmaltz By Joyce Millman
Figure skating, along with its attendant soap operas, has become TV's ultimate guilty pleasure.

The SALON Interview: Nicholson Baker By Laura Miller
The author of "Vox" and "The Fermata" talks about the public trials of writing about sex and the private joy of writing on a rubber spatula.

Stars for a Day By Richard Covington
They may not be Oscar fare in their own country, but this weekend American writers like Richard Ford, Tobias Wolff and Jayne Anne Phillips were given the superstar treatment at the 16th Paris Book Fair.

Don't Tread on Us By Derrick DePledge
Think the conservative revolution is dead? Think again, says Grover Norquist, the mastermind of the "leave us alone" coalition.

DEPARTMENTS

Word by Word: Anne Lamott's Online Diary
She has less than a month to finish her new novel. But Anne Lamott is operating under a slight handicap: "My mind is broken."

Work in Progress: Closings Photographs by Bill Bamberger
Scenes from the shutdown of the White Furniture Factory in Mebane N.C., source of the livelihoods of four generations of townfolk.

Lit Chat: Oliver Sacks
The neurologist and author of "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" and "An Anthropologist on Mars" talks with The Threepenny Review's Wendy Lesser.

Verbivore. By Richard Lederer
Track down a few "joeys" -- words contained within other words -- to get a jump on SALON's word maven. The winner receives a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.

The Listress. By Amy Wallace
(Almost) Totally Stoned: Illicit agricultural practices of the revered and famous. The first person to successfully match wits with The Listress wins a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.

REVIEWS

Movies

Sense and Sentimentality By Scott Rosenberg
Pedro Almodovar's "Flower of My Secret" applies the Spanish director's trademark outrageous satire to the disastrous love life of a romance novelist.

Spike Just Oughta Have Fun By Laura Miller
If "Girl 6" is any indication, America's foremost black filmmaker has lost his touch.

Books

The Heartbeat of Conscience By Gary Kamiya
The short stories of Andre Dubus trace the excruciating truths of married life in the familiar cadences of everyday speech.

Music

Incredibly Bad Music By Milo Miles
The revival of "lounge" music has our critic holding his nose.

A Sweet Tune From Lennon's Tomb By Mark Hertsgaard
Their "new" single "Real Love" is one of the highlights of the Beatles' second Anthology CD.

SNEAK PEEKS

Short reviews of the most intriguing new books, including William Vollmann's disturbing autobiographical fiction, a transcendent collection from the late poet Jane Kenyon, a biography of the self-creating Jerzy Kosinski and the story of rock's premiere transsexual.

COLUMNS

Ill Humor. June Bugs of the Millenium
By Ian Shoales. The author investigates the squishy question of just why NPR is aggressively proclaiming its similiarity to insect innards.

The Awful Truth.The Beautiful and the Damned: Spiritualists of the Lower East Side
By Cintra Wilson. Our heroine abjures her 'hood's nicely-packaged heroin and ventures into the psychic wasteland.

COMIX

Tom Tomorrow: This Modern World.
Carol Lay: Story Minute
Keith Knight: The K Chronicles
Ruben Bolling: Tom, The Dancing Bug

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