From "Preparing the Ghost" to Elena Ferrante's series, a reading list for your long weekend

Pick of the week: Darren Aronofsky's gorgeous, sexy, tripped-out ballet saga leaps into the Oscar race

The strange saga of the gun-toting GOP congresswoman, her single mom, the pro wrestler and the corrupt phlebotomist

Tina Fey's brilliant career illustrates a women-in-comedy paradox: Even the funniest will get judged on their looks

Mickey Rourke gives a knockout performance as a nearly washed-up wrestling star.

Margaret Sanger liked sex and wanted scientific birth control. Here's the story of how we got The Pill

“At least I don’t have a picture of Paul Ryan under my pillow,” Joy Behar responded to Meghan McCain on "The View"

For the first time, human ovulation is captured on film.

Wait, there were six Von Erich brothers (plus a fake one)?!

Salon's TV picks for
Weekend, May 21-23, 1999

Female candidates are being squeezed out on the eve of Super Tuesday, but there's no reason to give up this early

A teen goes viral for servicing men in a bar — all for a free drink. But sadly, this isn't shocking at all

The “Progressive Liberal” is the heel in Appalachia, while a jacked, whiskey-swigging bro plays villain in Oakland

The House Republican, who may run for Senate, backtracked from his comment that Akin was “partly right”

If religious conservatives had their way, all sex would be missionary and no man would suffer from "blue balls"