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The year in television 1997 By Joyce Millman
Ellen comes out, Mike Tyson flips out, Fox bottoms out
(12/24/97)

The year in film By Charles Taylor
There were a few shining glories in a lackluster year
(12/24/97)

No boom, no bust By Andrew Leonard and Scott Rosenberg
Salon 21st reviews the year in technology and the online world
(12/24/97)

The worst books of 1997 By Dwight Garner
Our critics pick the worst, and the most overrrated, titles of 1997
(12/24/97)

The year in books By Dwight Garner
Hands were wrung, insults were flung and the future of publishing was fretted over in what turned out to be a grand year for books, after all
(12/24/97)

And the losers are ... By Andrew Ross
Salon's First Annual Scumbag Awards
(12/24/97)

High notes By Cynthia Joyce
Salon contributors answer the question: What was your most significant musical moment of 1997?
(12/24/97)

Wires and buyers and scares -- oh my! By Don George
Don George has some questions about the year in travel
(12/24/97)

The Abandoned Newborn By Sharon Olds
(12/23/97)

The mother of all years By the editors of Mothers Who Think
A mom's almanac of the sad, silly, serious and sublime stories that made news in '97
(12/23/97)

Family myths, family realities By Stephanie Coontz
A string of lurid cases this year drew attention away from the real challenges that confront American families
(12/23/97)

All hail the bitch goddess! By Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia pays homage to the queen of camp, Jacqueline Susann, whose 1966 blockbuster novel, "Valley of the Dolls," has just been re-released
(12/19/97)

The girl-game jinx By Elizabeth Weil
Can selling computer games to girls be reduced to a science?
(12/10/97)

Smothered fire By Jane Hamilton
Louisa May Alcott's smothered fire
(12/09/97)

Save these books! By Dwight Garner
Some well-known writers celebrate and mourn their favorite out-of-print books
(12/04/97)

Salon Special: Barbie

The Church of Starbucks By Jennifer Reese
World domination isn't enough for coffee mogul Howard Schultz
(11/24/97)

Salon Special: Money

Service Tension By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Cretinous clerks, woolly-headed waiters, angst-ridden attendants -- you just can't get good help these days
Plus: The customer is always wrong By Tricia Romano
For eight hours a day I deal with indecisive yuppies, brain-dead bozos and order-giving assholes, for chump change. And you want me to smile?
(10/15/97)

Winning and Losing By Andre Dubus
On opening day, you remember the gifts that time cannot take away
(10/08/97)

School is out By Denis Johnson
Why I teach my kids at home
(10/01/97)

St.Diana By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
The mass grief over the death of Princess Diana proved that conservativism is alive in the streets -- and dead in the corridors of power
(09/23/97)

Pictures of an execution By David Bowman
How to look at Diana's final photos
(09/08/97)

Dr. Laura will hector you now By Laura Miller
Can talk radio's tough-talking moralist sell self-help to men?
(08/20/97)

Awakening the dude within By Dwight Garner
Manly advice books these days come in varying testosterone levels. Our New York book editor straps on his reading jock and checks them out
(08/20/97)

Making ourselves sick By David Futrelle
Are Chronic Fatigue and Gulf War syndromes real physical illnesses, or are they all in our heads?
(08/06/97)

Interracial adoption: One couple's story By Carol Lloyd and Hank Pellissier
Those who say love is colorblind never considered adopting a baby of a different race
(08/04/97)

Interracial adoption: One couple's story By Carol Lloyd and Hank Pellissier
Part two
(08/05/97)

The woman who turned America against divorce By Joan Walsh
The writer's amicable split with family expert Judith Wallerstein
(07/23/97)

Salon Special: Legal Drugs

The wizards of id By David Rakoff
Forget the martinis and smoking jackets. The Rat Pack ruled because they sang like angels and swung like hell
(06/13/97)

Jungle love By Stephanie Zacharek
Tarzan still swings
(06/06/97)
Plus: MeTarzan, you bride The perfect wedding vows

Dying as a growth experience

Hooker's Ball By Tracy Quan
A working girl falls for "The Life" (05/30/97)

The people's critic By Gary Kamiya
With his finely tuned bullshit meter and his dramatic flair, Robert Hughes has become America's best guide through the thickets of fine art
(05/23/97)

The Salon Interview: Robert Hughes By Gary Kamiya
The self-described "print asshole" on his nervous breakdown, why the curator of the Whitney is a "twit" and why painting will never die
(05/23/97)

Honey, I shrunk the family By Kate Moses
Are men to blame for the disappearance of home life?

Below the belt By Laura Miller
Two new books explore the ambiguous terrain of sexual harassment
(05/14/97)

Look Back in Lust By Carol Lloyd
Two very different sexperts trace the legacy of the sexual revolution
(05/07/97)

Gay in the USA By Johnny Ray Huston
Three new books reflect the mainstreaming of gay culture -- and demonstrate a willingness to confront some painful realities
(05/02/97)

Christians from Hell By Carol Lloyd
Hard drugs, deafening rap, domestic violence and maybe a spot of homicide. Welcome to the First Church of Christ, gangsta
(04/23/97)

Trailer trash By Hank Hyena
Coveting my neighbor's wife
(04/23/97)

Camp Counselor By Paul Festa
How Wayne Koestenbaum's "Jackie O" completed my quest for opera queendom
(04/07/97)

Didion as Diva By Bill Hayes
Why gays love Joan Didion
(04/07/97)

Payback By David Futrelle
The poisonous art of revenge
(04/04/97)

The Peter Pan Express By Carol Lloyd
Inside the model train universe, where boyhood never runs off the tracks
(04/02/97)

The man who brought things to life By Stephanie Zacharek
Joseph Cornell's art celebrated the mysteries of everyday objects
(03/31/97)

The Salon Interview: Bill T. Jones By Richard Covington
Is a beautiful dance in itself enough?
(3/28/97)

The Salon Interview: Susie Bright By David Talbot
America's leading crusader for good, dirty fun talks about our cheap strip-tease culture, the state of porn and the free-for-all potential of the Internet
(03/18/97)

Middlebrow and proud By David Futrelle
In defense of cultural mediocrity
(03/11/97)

Molested By Anonymous
How the system put my family on trial
(02/28/97)

Sex and the single post-feminist By Laura Miller
Bad girl Katie Roiphe loses it
(02/26/97)

Real Vampires By Carol Lloyd
They violate one of our taboo-devouring culture's last prohibitions: drinking human blood. They sleep during the day and have their teeth sharpened into fangs. But what's really weird about today's high-IQ bloodsuckers is their perky rhetoric of personal growth
(02/25/97)

Fallout By D.J. Waldie
The Cold War within me
(02/24/97)

True Stories By Hank Hyena
Dining out with my wife's boyfriend
(02/24/97)

ValiumJet By Dwight Garner
Freaked-out flier binges on tales of terror
(02/18/97)

Divorce, Franco-American style By Diane Johnson
Diane Johnson examines the not-so-innocents abroad
(02/18/97)

I hate V-Day By Carol Lloyd
It's time to reclaim V-Day from the love fascists
(02/12/97)

Michel Foucault's Love Slave By Carol Lloyd
How the author lost her head over Theory
(2/10/97)

Karma Sutra By Joan Smith
The "conscious sex" movement wants to take you higher
(2/4/97)

Therapy's Nervous Breakdown By Laura Miller
Is therapy losing its human touch in the age of managed care?
(2/3/97)

The worst bed and breakfast on earth By Douglas Cruikshank
Do they serve oat muffins on doilies in Hell?
(1/13/97)

Jungle bells, jungle bells By Denis Johnson
In which a ragtag troop of Boy Scouts, including the reprobate author, head into the Philippine jungle to build character, weep, and be washed away by an ocean of mud
(12/23/96)

Working and not working By Jim Paul
Fiction: A blocked writer rediscovers his work ethic
(12/23/96)

The Mystery of Evita By Kaitlin Quistgaard
Almost half a century after her death, the myth of Eva Perón still hangs heavily over Argentina
(12/9/96)

Sparky vs. Dogbert By David Futrelle
In Tom Tomorrow's view, fellow cartoonist Scott Adams is no slashing critic of the corporate status quo — he's a creature of it
(12/2/96)

Call of the wild: The power of beasts and bugs in a techno world

Crazy colors By Dwight Garner
Three dishy new books strip the art world bare. It ain't a pretty sight
(11/25/96)

Being alone By D.J. Waldie
In the heart of family-oriented suburbia, one man makes a radical choice. Holidays included
(11/25/96)

The Salon Interview: Ruth Reichl By Dwight Garner
Dishing the dirt with the restaurant critic for the New York Times
(11/18/96)

Hamburger heaven By John Thorne
Boutique burgers be damned! The ideal burger should be greasy and anonymous, says the author of "Serious Pig"
(11/18/96)

Hooked on Harry and David By Joyce Millman
Gluttony, sloth and other sins of a holiday food catalog addict
(11/18/96)

Victimhood is powerful By Carol Lloyd
All she wanted to do was take a simple self-defense class. She didn't realize she was joining a sob-sister cult
(11/11/96)

Reefer madness By Gary Kamiya and Andrew Ross
Is marijuana a transformative high or just a slippery slope to decadence? The debate between two Salon editors begins here and continues in Table Talk
(10/28/96)

Teachers' pets By Cynthia Joyce
A Salon Roundtable: three students open the books on their affairs with professors
(10/14/96)

The mathematics of change By Josh Kornbluth
In an excerpt from his new book, "Red Diaper Baby," monologist Josh Kornbluth writes about the romance of numbers -- and growing up nerdy
(9/23/96)

Sexual healing By Carol Lloyd
A new breed of "sacred" prostitute is trying to transform stigma into stigmata
(9/9/96)

The Salon Interview: Mark Morris By Richard Covington
The dance world's bad boy on the thrill of simplicity, the horror of auditioning and the perils of gay marriage
(9/9/96)

In defense of football By Gary Kamiya
It can't get no literary respect. So what? Compared to lemonade pastimes like baseball, pro football is a hit of crack cocaine
Plus: Ex-NFL player Tim Green's "The Dark Side of the Game" offers an unvarnished look at the reality of life in the NFL
(9/2/96)

Barbarians at the gates of culture By Richard Covington
Edinburgh's famous festival, and its lunatic fringes, have become Europe's most rambunctious, energetic cultural event
(9/2/96)

The lounge generation By Carina Chocano
When twenty-somethings embraced '50s fabulousness, they didn't realize that, in the '90s, even kitsch can be cheapened
(8/26/96)

Skillet tossing and funnel cake fever By Julia Barton
The strange world of Iowa's small town festivals
(8/19/96)

Salon Special: Death

Straight fairies By Carol Lloyd
This new breed of breeders is the gay world's gift to the het women of America
(7/29/96)

The Salon Interview: Merce Cunningham By Cynthia Joyce
After 50 years in the avant-garde, the modern dance choreographer is using computers to craft "Ocean," his final collaboration with the late John Cage
(7/29/96)

Junk bonds By Cynthia Joyce
On location among the heroin addicts of San Francisco's Tenderloin district, with documentary filmmaker Steven Okazaki. Video clips included
(7/15/96)

O.J.: The long goodbye By Joyce Millman
America's continuing fascination with O.J. Simpson reflects a primordial desire to see justice done -- even if Geraldo Rivera carries out the sentence
(7/8/96)

A moveable feast By Cynthia Durcanin
France's "chef of the century" reflects on culinary achievements and disasters as he prepares to hang up his toque
(7/8/96)

Outsourcing the theater By Charlie Varon
When the local talent just doesn't fit the bill, what's a stage producer to do? Look offshore
(7/1/96)

Honeymoon in Mongolia By Carol Lloyd
A marriage made on the steppes is not necessarily one made in heaven
(6/24/96)

NBA Special By By Joe Gioia
Jordan and Rodman: Brothers from another planet
(6/12/96)

The Salon Interview: Tony Kushner By Chris Hawthorne
The Pulitzer winning playwright sounds off on Clinton, Hollywood and America's biggest taboo
(6/10/96)

Redneck gays By Jeff Stein
They drive trucks, shoot guns and swill beer -- and don't you dare call them sissies
(6/3/96)

The King and I By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Like a river flows gently to the sea, darling so it goes -- some people were meant to be remarried in Vegas by Elvis, and our author is one of them
(5/27/96)

Hot links and hyper Tex By Pableaux Johnson
In search of the perfect sausage in the Lone Star State
(5/13/96)

Temper tantrum By Laura Miller
Robert Bly wails that we're a nation of spoiled brats
(5/6/96)

Having a ball, wish you were here By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Stale-bun hot dogs. Scowling Lolitas with hairy underarms. Toilet-paper shortages. The Czech Republic didn't exactly greet our correspondent warmly -- until a conga line altered the mood
(5/6/96)

Hip to be hapless By Charles Taylor
David Schwimmer leads the new pack of hang-dog hunks
(4/29/96)

Kinko's Hell By Carina Chocano
Abandon hope, all job seekers and freelancers who enter here
(4/29/96)

This sporting life By Tim Green
Benching Bigotry. To the uninitiated, the NFL looks like a racial utopia. Those who have heard the ugly whispers in the locker room know better
(3/9/96)

The thrill is gone By Dan Shafer
A baseball fan's lament
(2/24/96)

No coloreds need apply By Sheila Peabody
When a scrupulously leftist academic needs a housecleaner, Jim Crow wields the mop
(2/24/96)

Duty-free art By Sallie Tisdale
Jesse Helms says artists must be socially responsible. So do many of the shocking artists he reviles. They're both wrong
(2/24/96)

The Betty notebooks By Anonymous
Shocking, unexpurgated true-life tales of female lust and anomie -- from the generation so WILD they called it "X"!!!
(2/10/96)

Weasel balls, crocodile dung & a black cat bone By Susan McCarthy
A visitor to the one and only Museum of Contraception
(2/10/96)

Too many naked women By Joel Stratte-McClure
Helmut Newton, the most famous purveyor of glossy flesh in the world, is swearing off nudes
(2/10/96)

Moveable Feast: Love bites By Amy Wallace
Starved for love? Feast your eyes on the ultimate aphrodisiac menu
(2/10/96)

Burning Down the House By Gary Kamiya
Intent on making history, Newt Gingrich may become its victim
(1/13/96)

Moveable Feast: Croc monsieur By Steve Chapple
Is it bad luck to eat crocodile tail on the banks of the Zambezi?
(1/13/96)

This sporting life By Tim Green
There is no feeling in the world that compares to sacking the quarterback
(1/13/96)

The talking cure By Joan Walsh
In a misguided attempt to alleviate racial and sexual tensions, corporate America is turning the workplace into a giant therapy couch
(12/30/95)

Work in progress: Critical age By Julian Okwu
A photographer looks at young black men who are not the usual suspects
(12/30/95)

Fighting demons on death row By Kathy Dobie
After she killed a Jacksonville, Florida policeman in 1983, Andrea Hicks Jackson began a long, strange journey to redemption
(12/16/95)

The ghosts of Christmas past By Israel Medina, Lyn Duff, Ri'chard Magee, Sierra Kazarian, Aminah Owens, Chih-Hong Hsu and Marian Liu
The reminiscences of these young writers testify that not every Christmas is bright
(12/16/95)

Disney can't have my child By Joyce Millman
A mother's lament: It is virtually impossible, unless you're living among the Amish (maybe), to raise a child without some exposure to the Empire of the Mouse
(12/16/95)

This sporting life By Tim Green
The novelist and former Atlanta Falcons star takes a hard look at the cold-blooded world of NFL economics
(12/16/95)

Go East, young man By Andrew Lam
Forget about keeping immigrants out. Smart young Americans are heading the other way
(12/2/95)

Moveable Feast: The cheese trail By Patricia Unterman
A food lover treks into the Pyrenees to learn the ancient cheese-making secrets of the Basques. While there, she is treated to the most delicious meal of her life (recipe included)
Plus: The favorite Chinese restaurants of readers around the world
(12/2/95)

The Kiss Patrol By Armistead Maupin
For 12 years, this least FiFi of poodles has been part of the author's family. But there are some things you just can't explain -- not to a dog, maybe not even to yourself
(11/20/95)

Moveable Feast: The long munch
John Krich's hunt for the world's best Chinese restaurant takes him to Paris
(11/20/95)