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Sting’s advice

Cary Tennis
Is it true that if you love someone you have to set them free?

“12 Monkeys”

Virginia Vitzthum
Combining time-travel thriller and experimental film, Terry Gilliam's 1995 oddball classic steals a tale of doomed love and cruel fate from Hitchcock -- then pays back the debt.

Long live the King

Alex Halberstadt
Elvis Presley died 25 years ago this week, and his hardcore fans are getting "too old to shag." But the bizarre and marvelous world of Elvismania will never die.

Ira Einhorn’s long, strange trip

Neil Gordon
After two decades on the run from charges in a horrific murder, the counterculture icon is home and headed for trial. But in France, he's still a human rights hero.

Summers at Camp Ethnicity

Janelle Brown
Are camps for foreign adoptees just a place for their parents to exorcise white guilt, or do they help the kids develop pride, cope with prejudice and get in touch with their roots?

Ask the pilot

Patrick Smith
When airplanes collide, who is responsible? Are we doing enough to prevent such disasters?

Asia Argento is a hottie

Charles Taylor
You just can't take your eyes off her.

Literary daybook, Aug. 9

the Salon Books Editors
Real and imaginary events of interest to readers.

The ghost of Bruce Springsteen

Joey Sweeney
My parents got divorced. I was high on mushrooms. My country was attacked. Bruce was there.

Coming clean

Cary Tennis
I've been faking orgasms for 10 years, but now I want to stop. Should I tell my husband?

Minor report

David Tuller
Sex between teenage boys and older men is not always coercive -- and it can be more ecstatic than traumatic.

The Madman and me

Erich Pfeifer
Ozzy and I crossed paths on the worst day of my life. Boy, am I grateful.

“Reign of Fire”

Andrew O'Hehir
Dragons torch the earth as manly men with weird hair battle them in this colossally misconceived dud.

Imitation nation

Lisa Movius
Is piracy-crazed China a nightmare vision of the future, or just a developing country going through some severe growing pains?

The original pick-up artist

Catherine Getches
At 57, James Toback is clean, sober and married. But the legendary Hollywood womanizer and gambler still bets his life on every new movie (and talks to strangers in Central Park).

I wanna hold your hand

Michelle Richmond
I have gone to bed with men, in part, for the beauty or agility or originality of their hands.

“The Bourne Identity”

Charles Taylor
Matt Damon and Franka Potente illuminate a gripping, handsome post-Cold War thriller from "Swingers" director Doug Liman.

Watching the giant mediums

Laura Laughlin
James Van Praagh and John Edward are the Spears and Aguilera of psychic readings. After seeing them, I'm not so skeptical.

Fast forward

Eric Spitznagel
I watched feats of sexuality that could only be described as psychopathic proctology, and not once did I hear them utter even a single line of my carefully crafted dialogue.

Hell no, we won’t go

Michelle Goldberg
A young Israeli draft resister isn't challenging just the Israeli occupation, but the very foundation of this warrior nation.

I’d prefer not to

Tom Bissell
My list includes Toni Morrison, Henry James, Faulkner and Beckett. Why are there some great writers we just cannot read?

Bush and Gore’s Florida nightmare: It’s ba-ack!

Anthony York, Damien Cave
Experts weigh in on Justice's decision to investigate -- and possibly sue -- counties and municipalities in Florida, Tennessee and Missouri for disenfranchising voters, many of them blacks.

Men who hurt themselves for a living

Cintra Wilson
Whimpering existential wimp-thug David Blaine lays his cojones on the scales against cackling, criminally irreverent feces-diver Johnny Knoxville. Knoxville's have more heft.

Meatmarket.com

Heather Havrilesky
In the competitive world of online dating, singles brand themselves as sexy commodities. But what happens when the wrapping comes off?
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