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Navigating Nairobi

Alicia Rebensdorf
For a Western woman, waiting on a rainy day at a matatu stand illuminates some inescapable truths.

Poetry slam

Garrison Keillor
She sent my husband laughable love poems and talked trash about me. He says the affair is finished, but how do I get over it?

Cover me

Anna Mantzaris
In a family of exhibitionists, I'm the prude. Now please pass me my towel.

He vs. she, part 1

Jake Tapper
Even new resident Monica can't handle this one, as Rudy and Hillary prepare to take their fearsome domestic quarrel to upstate New York.

Getting over it

Deirdre Guthrie
I fled New York, then I fled Paris. In Italy I stuck around a while, for something called "like love."

Why they never told us

Kate Moses
First novelist Rahna Reiko Rizzuto talks about the silence surrounding the Japanese internment camps, being "stealth Japanese" and writing herself into two children.

The things we carry

Cynthia Gorney
You have 30 minutes and two garbage bags: How do you pack for a disaster?

He knows me, he knows me not

Tracy Quan
How can Matt know her so well and not at all?

The sound of soda

Barbara Field
Last year I attended Rosh Hashanah at a race track -- this year my religious experience is carbonated, thanks to my son.

Toy story

Jennifer Parello
Oh, the adventures of a gal's first vibrator. Mr. Stubbies could charm the pants off anyone. Almost anyone.

A place called Crystal City

Jake Tapper
Bill Bradley kicks off his presidential campaign with an old-fashioned tug at the heartstrings.

Belize in the dark

Michael Perry
We take to the dark so that we may buy some time in the light.

Silicon Follies

Thomas Scoville
Chapter 49: Layoff -- Candy gets taken out with the trash

Fear 101

Elizabeth Bobrick
Seasonal teaching anxiety reduces the most experienced professors to raw nerves and nightmares.

“Dudley Do-Right”

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Brendan Fraser does the sweet-but-stupid big lug shtick again -- and again, and again ...

My son, the junkie

Wendy Mnookin
I finally had to let him save, or kill, himself.

Randy Newman

Sean Elder
For decades, he has pulled us in two directions at once by expressing sentiments we don't want to hear in songs we never tire of hearing.

The color of money

Joyce Millman
Of course there are blacks on TV. You just have to pay to see them.

Can I go to Cuba without breaking the law?

Donald D. Groff
Our travel expert offers advice on making your way to Cuba, lost traveler's checks, pricing a Disney/Universal Studios trip and finding that Florida healing center

Malaria dreams

Tanya Shaffer
I was invincible in Africa -- until the mosquitoes got me.

Cat Stevens

Amy Reiter
By the early '70s he was rich, famous, filling stadiums and partying like the pop star he'd become. But before the decade was over he walked away from it all.

The Savage id

Michael Sragow
Camille Paglia talks about why Hitchcock has more to do with Madonna than he does with pomo theorists.

Lip service

Virginia Vitzthum
Is kissing the most intimate act or a coming attraction for sex?

Shelve it under unfiction

Andrea Siegel
Requests for books on send, R and taxidermy were the easy questions during my first month at a bookstore info desk.
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