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Emotional insurance
Allison Hoover Bartlett
Pictures of polliwogs, first baths and birthdays preserve my children in time, but I am always standing just out of the frame.
A dad called Mama
Lu Vickers
Showing his children the wonder of Florida's shaded lakes and curious insects, my father taught me the nature of unconditional love.
On the road with George W. Bush
Jake Tapper
Where never is heard a discouraging word for the goofy cowboy who would be president.
Hey, let's crocodile and let's rock awhile
Douglas Cruickshank
Come all ye ignoble etymologists: It's contest time! Define "hum cap," win a T-shirt. Plus: Southern-fried music lit's finest hour: "Rythm Oil."
Is this as good as it gets?
Stephanie Zacharek
Ever since "Sleepless in Seattle," so-called chick movies have been in slow decline.
Cutting into sacred territory
Lori Arviso Alvord, M.d., Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt
A Navajo medical student faces one of the strongest taboos of her culture -- touching the dead.
Under the volcano
David Lazarus
The Japanese, never known for their frivolity, have grown downright depressed as their decade-long economic troubles proliferate.
A baffling man
Vince Passaro
Although David Foster Wallace doesn't act the way an author should, his brilliant new book is filled with desperation, loneliness and addiction.
Raped on an autumn day
Nancy Venable Raine
There's nothing more reassuring than a locked door -- unless you've locked the devil inside with you.
Fingers will twitch . . .
Jenn Shreve
In 44 years of training morticians, Hugh McMonigle has seen twitching fingers, rebuilt heads and has been properly freaked out at least once.
Naked came the burglar; or, the cruel winds of fate
Douglas Cruickshank
There are a thousand stories in the Naked City -- but almost none of them involve the Lord of Flatulence.
Unbroken
Brett Anderson
June Carter and Johnny Cash celebrate her new album with soulful spirituals and fried green tomatoes.
Mr. Mom’s world
David Case
Stay-at-home dads face down stereotypes and learn how undervalued the work of child care really is.
The woman in the gray flannel Mao jacket
Ruth Shalit
After two months as an ad woman, Ruth Shalit surveys the historic depiction of her profession and decides she'd rather be a late-capitalist soul-snatcher than a cringing drunk or a thieving ho'.
The bitter end
Jack Hitt
The mistrial in the Steele case marks Kenneth Starr's induction into the American hall of shame.
Confessions of a cocktail party crasher con cojones
Amy Reiter
It's kind of like the Mafia: Getting out's a little tougher than getting in.
A spy on “The Beach”
Rolf Potts
Our correspondent reports from behind the scenes of Leonardo DiCaprio's new movie.
San Francisco romance
Laura Fraser
A passionate reunion rekindles a resident's love affair with the city.
An erotic tour of Turkey
Sandra J. Goldstein
By day I would listen to lectures on history and art, but all I could think of was the night before, or the night to come.
Ways to disappear
Adam Bluestein
Three new friends on the Thailand-Burma border teach a traveler about gaining and losing.
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