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The bin Laden book club
Michael Scherer
How the world's most notorious terrorist just launched an obscure left-wing American author into bestseller stardom.
I’m the academic wife, jealous and insecure
Cary Tennis
I'm regarded as inferior by my husband's admirers. I'm afraid I'll lose him to a brilliant and beautiful student.
Smuggler’s blues
Oliver Broudy
Before becoming a writer, Richard Stratton ran hash from the Middle East, making money hand over fist and living off adrenaline. Until he got caught.
We shall overcome … liberals
Michelle Goldberg
At a black church in Philadelphia, Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece joined Jerry Falwell and Rick Santorum to denounce critics of Samuel Alito.
Farewell from Asbury Park, N.J.
Rebecca Traister
In 1968, a skinny teenager named Bruce Springsteen started jamming at an all-ages club on the Jersey Shore. Now, as the Upstage faces demolition, fans remember better days.
Christmas past
Ann Patchett
My parents divorced and we moved across the country. My sister told me Santa was a fake, and a plague of mice destroyed our tree. No wonder I longed to return to sunny California.
Delta, Delta, Delta, Feminist, Feminist, Feminist?
Lynn Harris
A sorority at Trinity College aims to redefine sisterhood.
Pride and pathetic
Gina Fattore
It's heartwarming! It's romantic! Poor Jane Austen must be rolling in her grave over the new film of her great novel.
Survival of the unfittest
Gordy Slack
A Pennsylvania judge has ruled that intelligent design is not fit for science classes. But I.D. remains rooted in U.S. schools, where science teachers are pressured to address God in the classroom.
Is “Samson and Delilah” a fake?
Edward M. Gomez
Just in time for London's big Rubens exhibition, a challenge to one of the heroic Flemish painter's most celebrated pictures heats up again.
Blood and betrayal
Gary Kamiya
After four years of the badly botched "war on terror," are we ready to hear the hard words of Robert Fisk -- a gutsy war correspondent who says the West has wronged the Middle East?
The execution of Stanley Tookie Williams
Adam Shemper, Jonathan Stein
Outside San Quentin prison Monday night, under the floodlights,
death penalty opponents prayed, sang hymns and cursed the Terminator.
Sen. Eugene McCarthy remembered
Dana Cook
Russell Baker, David Frost, Larry King, Gloria Steinem, Tip O'Neill and others recall their encounters with the legendary senator.
Rise of the new black leaders
Chris Thompson
A new generation of black politicians is striving to put racial patronage and civic corruption behind it, and unite an increasingly diverse nation.
Speaking truth to power
Salon Staff
In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, playwright Harold Pinter condemns the Bush administration's assault on human dignity.
Imagine all the people
Dana Cook
Howard Cosell, Jerry Lee Lewis, David Crosby, Kate Millett, Timothy Leary, Geraldo Rivera and others recall their encounters with John Lennon, who died 25 years ago today.
Coach
Susan Straight
Afraid he'd blow it, my ex-husband didn't want to coach our daughter. He changed his mind -- and we all won.
Mistress of horror
Hillary Frey
With her creepy, suspenseful stories of desperate people in tight situations, Rachel Ingalls could be the next Patricia Highsmith.
America can’t take it anymore
Mark Follman
The Bush administration has embraced torture as a key part of the "war on terror." Finally, members of Congress, the military and the CIA are speaking out against the abuse.
Whatsizface
David Rakoff
Two Beverly Hills plastic surgeons showed me the promise of a perfect face. So why am I keeping this shabby old one?
Gulf Coast slaves
Roberto Lovato
Halliburton and its subcontractors hired hundreds of undocumented Latino workers to clean up after Katrina -- only to mistreat them and throw them out without pay.
The New Work meets the Old Economy
Cory Doctorow
Kodacell's in trouble, but Andrea's on a new story: Russian biotech weight-loss clinics. Chapter 10 of "Themepunks."
The Big Idea
John Horgan
Presenting the leading edge in science: Decoding the brain, stringing together the universe and arresting human aging.
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