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Conquering Half Dome — and the fear of falling
Don George
When a simple hike turns into a paralyzing ascent, a father has to overcome his terror.
The mockumentary cometh
Sarah Vowell
Documentaries are huge. Their perverse cousins are nipping at their heels.
The Barbecue Jesus and other epiphanies
Rolf Potts
Wandering off the Vietnamese budget travel trail in search of authenticity, our correspondent finds that authenticity isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Marcel Marceau
Leslie Crawford
He remains the unquestioned master of the art that dare not speak its name. That's his strength and the art's weakness.
Keepers of the faith
Sarah Keech
Despite dwindling time and numbers, the anti-Clinton movement won't say die.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
"Blair Witch" buzz is real, not faked; multiple partners, multiple problems; Christian-bashing in "Son of Sam" story was over the top.
What's in a name?
Bruce Shapiro
Upon the death of the scion of America's greatest political dynasty, a quick survey of American politics reminds us how much it helps to have a famous name.
case dismissed
Garrison Keillor
women who write using only lower-case letters must be careful about love. they'll fall too easily for a cabbie, a pizza boy or a poet.
Episode 2: The just-in-time orgasm
Tracy Quan
When love is your business, pleasure takes a serious toll.
He remembers Papa
Jon B. Rhine
They fought about politics, he stole Hemingway's girl. An old war buddy reminisces.
Rapids, ruins and the end of the river
Rolf Potts
In which our correspondent wanders the tranquil streets of Thakaek and weathers a dangerous descent.
The perils of the harem
Jeffrey Tayler
Beguiled by beauties in negligees, a Peace Corps volunteer stumbles into a romantic misadventure in Marrakech.
Playing from behind
Steve Kettmann
The trials and tribulations of being a female sportswriter were highlighted by last week's Samantha Stevenson-Julius Erving story.
My five minutes with Bill Gates
Gary Rivlin
After a three-month campaign to get a word with the world's richest man, a writer gets all he had hoped for.
The murder that shocked Washington
Paul Hofer
Helen Foster-El was shot protecting children from gunfire. The man whose home she cleaned eulogizes the housekeeper-turned-local hero whose death has galvanized the city.
The write time
Tracy Mayor
One classmate is on her way to literary fame, anointed by the New Yorker; the other's on her way to the grocery store.
Problem family
Jill Wolfson
When domestic abuse showed up in my neighborhood, I had to decide whether to help or keep my distance.
Richard Lester: A hard day's life
Steve Burgess
The man who "invented" the music video was the perfect film director for the Beatles. His exuberant, manic style matched theirs and brilliantly captured an era at its beginning.
Emotional insurance
Allison Hoover Bartlett
Pictures of polliwogs, first baths and birthdays preserve my children in time, but I am always standing just out of the frame.
A dad called Mama
Lu Vickers
Showing his children the wonder of Florida's shaded lakes and curious insects, my father taught me the nature of unconditional love.
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