- The most awkward sex ever? 8 epic holiday hookup tales
- A frat boy’s “gay experience”
- “The Nutcracker’s” disturbing origin story: Why this was once the world’s creepiest ballet
- How to win Christmas arguments: Salon’s guide to defeating your crazy right-wing uncle
- Bill O’Reilly ruined Christmas: Why his nonsense undermines the holiday I love
- World War I’s forgotten Christmas anniversary
- How to keep the peace with your conservative relatives this holiday: Complain together!
- Help these kids today: America’s quiet homelessness nightmare is 1.3 million homeless students
- Jack Miles’ return to religion: “There are questions that remain in the human mind even when science doesn’t address them”
- My atheist Christmas: How I overcame my personal struggle with the holiday
- Heat Miser and Snow Miser fiction: Salon’s two-sentence holiday stories, starring the brilliant Xmas special duo
- The “Star Wars” holiday special George Lucas wants to smash every copy of with a sledgehammer
- Why do I visit my family for the holidays?
- How I became homeless
- 2014’s best of the literary Web: From “Mansplanation Nation” to “The Original ‘Gone Girl'”
- When guys find out I’m a virgin
