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Perfect Circle: Chapter 1
Salon Staff
Ghosts are all different, like demons, not all the same, like zombies. They all want something. If you've got the sense God gave a cockroach, you stay away from them.
My first time with Brando
Compiled by Dana Cook
Michael Jackson, Kirk Douglas, Mary Tyler Moore, Tennessee Williams, Rocky Graziano, Joan Baez, Tony Bennett, Michael Caine, Mario Puzo and many others recall their initial encounters with the acting legend.
I am my own wife
Rebecca Traister
She's still best known as Mrs. Springsteen, but on her new album Patti Scialfa steps out of the Boss's shadow.
Is she really going out with him?
Curtis Sittenfeld
How do our amazingly intelligent and fascinating friends end up dating total duds? Meet the all-too-common "unequally cool couple."
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
The summer season is a barren desert, but thank God for "Doggie Day Care" and the encore of "Show Biz Moms & Dads"; plus "Good Girls Don't ..." goes wrong.
Of human bondage
Darius Rejali
The kinds of torture used at Abu Ghraib stem from techniques common to colonial imperialists, Stalin's secret police and the Gestapo.
The accidental soldier
Phillip Robertson
Dr. Sudip Bose joined the Army to help pay his medical school bills. Now he's a surgeon in Iraq, saving the lives of Americans as well as the Iraqis who are trying to kill them.
“Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge”
Charles Taylor
One of the biggest Indian movies of all time has finally reached America -- and deserves to translate into a big success here, too.
Box office politics
Geraldine Sealey
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Quick! Detroit police: Distribute marijuana immediately! Plus: Tough times for superstars. And: Ralph Wiley, R.I.P.
What’s wrong with me
Cary Tennis
How can I find someone who will stay with me long enough to marry and have kids?
Rewriting the script
Sidney Blumenthal
Unlike the current occupant of the White House, Reagan was willing to improvise on the far-right script, which is what ultimately saved his presidency.
Antiwar hero
John F. Callahan
He made history by challenging a president who had plunged the nation into a calamitous war. More than three decades later, Gene McCarthy reflects on his legendary race against Lyndon Johnson -- and the current campaign to unseat George W. Bush.
Gothic
Ali Smith
A bookstore clerk confronts corpses, urinators, men with damp handkerchiefs, and a restrictive dress code. And, worst of all, authors. A short story from the author of the Booker-nominated "Hotel World."
Trashing the Hallmark card mom
Katy Read
Weary of saccharine stereotypes, a diverse group of women is demanding that society do more than pay lip service to mothers.
Why don’t we do it in the road?
Linda Baker
A new school of traffic design says we should get rid of stop signs and red lights and let cars, bikes and people mingle together. It sounds insane, but it works.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Lara Flynn Boyle declares herself "100 percent for Bush," Picasso painting goes missing and Sylvester Stallone offers the world ... pudding.
Making his party proud
Geraldine Sealey
Monday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
After the tanks
Phillip Robertson
The young Al-Mahdi Army soldiers said nothing as we drove past. The U.S. Army had just blasted their cemetery stronghold with Apaches, and they didn't care about anything.
Ode to Billy Joe
Brad Reagan
Billy Joe Shaver lost his wife and his mom the same year his beloved son died of an overdose. He never made any money, and he lives in obscurity in Waco, Texas. But the man Willie Nelson says "may be the best songwriter alive today" is still keeping on.
I’m an insecure saboteur
Cary Tennis
I have a habit of destroying all of my relationships after they're about a year old.
One minute from abnormal
James C. Moore
A Texas reporter explores Karen Hughes' cultlike devotion to George W. Bush.
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