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Bye-bye, dancing baby
Carina Chocano
Sure, she was scary-skinny and her skirts were too short. But don't blame the unfiltered neuroses of "Ally McBeal" for the crisis contemporary women (and men) face.
“The Bullet Meant for Me” by Jan Reid
Dan Oko
A boxing fan gets shot in the gut and winds up making a bedridden reassessment of machismo, Texas style.
“The Fasting Girl” by Michelle Stacey
Kate Bolick
Victorian America's foremost anorexic became hugely famous for surviving for 12 years on a few spoonfuls of milk and a banana.
“Dogtown and Z-Boys”
Jeff Stark
Stacy Peralta's sun-drenched skateboarding documentary captures the vibe (and inflates the legend) of Santa Monica in the '70s.
Cesar Pelli
Brian Libby
The architect of Manhattan's World Financial Center -- and of the world's tallest towers -- discusses ground zero, the future of skyscrapers and how New York's skyline is handsomer than ever.
“The Long Recessional” by David Gilmour
Allen Barra
A biography of the writer who possibly had the greatest influence on the 20th century argues that Rudyard Kipling was no mere racist, warlike champion of empire.
The browning of America
Suzy Hansen
Author Richard Rodriguez talks about the erotic conundrum of race mixing in America, his strange love for Richard Nixon and why George W. Bush is our first Hispanic president.
“The Salton Sea”
Charles Taylor
Hey, remember the mid-'90s, when every young filmmaker wanted to make pulpy, pop-culture-driven, Tarantino-style black comedies? Nope, me neither.
See no evil
Eugene Cullen Kennedy
By utterly failing to address the church's sex abuse scandal this week in Rome, the Catholic aristocracy demonstrated its complete irrelevance.
“Everything is Illuminated” by Jonathan Safran Foer
Laura Miller
In hilariously mangled English, a Ukrainian boy describes his efforts to help a young American Jew find the village his grandfather fled in World War II.
The New York Sun’s not-so-bright debut
Eric Boehlert
Its support for Israel is unwavering -- but New York's just-launched paper is a little shakier when it comes to editorial fundamentals.
One ring to rule them all
Heather Havrilesky
From post-"Bridget" fiction to ABC's frightening "The Bachelor," the wedding porn genre mates emasculated Mr. Rights with soulless, life-size Barbies.
Mighty aphrodisiac
Amy Reiter
Tea Leoni mysteriously falls for the Woodman; DeGeneres gets Amish; catfight between Boy George and Madonna! Plus: New wrinkle in Angelil's rape case.
Gore Vidal
Gary Kamiya
Congress should investigate how much the Bush "oil junta" knew in advance about Sept. 11. This and other bombshells from American literature's leading provocateur.
Why is diversity such a drag?
Arianna Huffington
Schools and businesses make blending cultures seem like castor oil, painful but necessary. If you want to know why we mix, head to the movies.
Kinda sorta buried alive!
Chris Green
What hath reality TV wrought? Amateur Michigan filmmakers are accused of kidnapping, and the tabloid shows eat it up. But the real culprit may be the entertainment industry's phony cult of "realness."
The baby panic
Joan Walsh
Sylvia Ann Hewlett says young women should start husband-hunting in their 20s if they don't want to end up childless and sad. But she's as clueless about balancing work and family as the career-first feminists she decries.
A woman’s place
Michelle Goldberg
It's been 12 years since "Backlash" -- it must be time to scare women into domestic submission again.
Bones of contention
Juno Gregory
The ongoing debate over where the first Americans came from has anthropologists battling with Native Americans, white supremacists and the Army Corps of Engineers.
The Voice of the Poet: Wallace Stevens
Salon Staff
Listen to a rare recording of Stevens reading his poems
"To the One of Fictive Music" and "Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself."
The Enron bonus plan
Arianna Huffington
A bankruptcy judge approves millions in new bonuses for "key" Enron employees.
“World Traveler”
Charles Taylor
Share the dull exploits of Billy Crudup, philandering schmuck, in this tedious tale of middle-aged angst.
What Penthouse taught us
Lee Quarnstrom
A former Hustler editor celebrates the now-drooping skin mag that taught American lads that a nasty girl with a B cup could be hotter than Hef's mammoth-meloned innocents.
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