Stephen Amidon is currently at work on the screenplay for his most recent novel, "Human Capital."

Stephen Amidon's Salon stories

Saturday, Aug 22, 2009 03:22 PDT

Why I love Britain's socialized healthcare system

As I learned when my newborn daughter was very sick, in U.K. hospitals, people take care of each other
Monday, Jan 22, 2007 04:25 PST

Ode to joy

Barbara Ehrenreich turns away from pop sociology to explore the historical oppression of collective happiness in "Dancing in the Streets."
Saturday, Dec 2, 2006 04:17 PST

Dangerous liaisons

"Casanova's Women" shows that the world-famous rake spread joy -- even empowerment -- among his 116 lovers, not to mention V.D., pregnancy and social disgrace.
Saturday, Aug 12, 2006 05:47 PDT

"I didn't like sex at all"

Martha Gellhorn was a gorgeous, brilliant foreign correspondent once married to Hemingway. But underneath her glamorous exterior, her letters reveal a woman of awe-inspiring rage.
Thursday, Jun 15, 2006 05:00 PDT

Destination: Arizona

Look beyond the sprawl and congestion of this desert state with books from Wallace Stegner, Geronimo and Barbara Kingsolver -- and an unlikely guide to the Grand Canyon.
Tuesday, Jun 13, 2006 05:02 PDT

Reefer madness

Michigan's Rainbow Farm was a utopia for stoners, gays and dissenters. Then America's anti-drug insanity erupted in its ugliest form.
Monday, May 22, 2006 05:12 PDT

Forget the Haight and Woodstock

A new book makes a compelling case that Laurel Canyon, home to Joni, Zappa, Mama Cass and many more, was the true center of '60s rock.
Saturday, Apr 15, 2006 04:02 PDT

The rake of Rouen

A new biography depicts Madame Bovary's creator as a sexual adventurer who spent his life at war with his bourgeois self.
Sunday, Jun 19, 2005 08:54 PDT

Reading "Jane Eyre"

Forget the two-fisted Faulkner and Hardy. Tackling Charlotte Bronte's courageously romantic novel made me a better man.

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