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“X2”
Stephanie Zacharek
This snazzy sequel to Bryan Singer's comic-book smash "X-Men" is sleek and sexy, filled with delicious characters and effects. Just don't compare it to the original.
The sins of the father
Alice Elman
Why, almost 50 years later, is my mother still protecting the man who abused us both?
“It Runs in the Family”
Stephanie Zacharek
Three generations of the Douglas clan -- Kirk, Michael and grandson Cameron -- star in a bumpy but brave family comedy about old age and mortality.
Saddam’s shadow
Ferry Biedermann
In Tikrit, the fallen dictator's home, Americans are seen as occupiers, not liberators -- and some residents say they'll drive them out.
The world press on the war
Compiled by Laura McClure
The editor of a Saudi Arabian newspaper asks, "What have the Arabs done to help themselves over the last 40 years?"
The world press on the war
Compiled by Laura McClure
An angry American peace activist has become a legend among U.S. troops stationed in Iraq.
Snatching “Victor” from the jaws of defeat
Jacob Kornbluth
My film opened on Sept. 11. My friend's movie, "Raising Victor Vargas," opened during the war with Iraq. We talk about timing -- and how to put politics in movies without becoming Michael Moore.
When nudists swung
David Bowman
Reliving the glory days of Jaybird, the mid-'60s magazine for randy nature lovers.
“Am-ri-ka! Am-ri-ka! Am-ri-ka!”
Phillip Robertson
After suffering years of Saddam's ethnic cleansing and a night of U.S. bombing, the residents of Mahad greet Americans with chants and stories and shouts of joy.
End of story
Michael Taeckens
He wasn't gay, but after he broke up with his girlfriend he dated me for four months. Then he shot himself.
The world press on the war
Compiled by Laura McClure
In Bush's postwar Iraq, a former CIA director with Israeli connections may head the Information Ministry.
Naked on the set! Finale
Paul Festa
Wherein my life becomes a surreal blend of "Hedwig" and "All About Eve."
The world press on the war
Compiled by Laura McClure
Inside a fetid Iraqi torture chamber, the BBC discovers the discarded identity cards of dozens of men.
Death of a dreamer
Anthony York
In her green hometown, far from the squalid road in Gaza where she was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer, the young activist is remembered as an idealist who loved life.
See no evil
Edward W. Lempinen
Progressives have lots of arguments against the war on Iraq -- some of them compelling. But why aren't they burning to free Saddam's oppressed masses?
Naked on the set!
Paul Festa
As I prepare to audition for the new X-rated film project by "Hedwig" creator John Cameron Mitchell, I'm left to wonder: Will he think I have the whole package? Part 1 in a series.
Letters
Salon Staff
A primer in artificial intelligence: Smart readers respond to John Sundman's "Artificial Stupidity."
San Francisco comes undone
Joan Walsh
In an unprecedented political blood bath, a grand jury indicts the police department's top brass. After a morning of chaos the police chief takes a mysterious medical leave, but turmoil reigns.
Capt. Kirk’s bulging trousers
Mark Simpson
A touring exhibition of genuine "Star Trek" gimcracks reminds us of the virile greatness of the original Shatner/Nimoy series -- and the p.c. limpness of all the spinoffs.
Just pretend it will all go away
Eric Boehlert
Flagging sales? War in Iraq? Dead concertgoers? "Whatever," says a flaggng music industry hiding behind Norah Jones and Eminem at the big Grammys telecast.
She had me from the time I typed LOL
Salon Staff
We made a routine of waking up, making love like jungle monkeys, pausing for me to call in sick to work, and then back to the monkey sex.
Lady Lazarus
Kate Moses
In this excerpt from "Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath," Plath's marriage begins to unravel.
“Savage Girls and Wild Boys” by Michael Newton
Laura Miller
Kids raised by wolves? It happens, says an English academic. But the mute and bizarre children in these outlandish histories don't grow up to be Tarzan.
The chicken show
Andrew Grant
The greatest dot-com loser story ever told: A refugee from the bubble seeks a job in Atlanta, and is humiliated. Repeatedly.
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