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“The Sweet Hell Inside” by Edward Ball
Jonelle Bonta
From the author of "Slaves in the Family" comes an inside look at the relatively easy life among the elite mixed-race families of the Deep South.
Do androids dream of First Amendment rights?
Brad Wieners
A Net-controlled robot reporter from MIT may be headed for Afghanistan.
Trouble at the top
Joe Conason
The Enron debacle should be a golden opportunity for Democratic Party-led reforms. But party chairman Terry McAuliffe may be part of the problem.
“Queen of the Damned”
Damien Cave
The late R&B star Aaliyah haunts an Anne Rice adaptation that feels like a
vampire's life: It goes on forever.
“Monsoon Wedding”
Charles Taylor
This eye-popping Indian wedding comedy is a guaranteed art-house hit. Too bad it misses all the good jokes.
“Homo Zapiens” by Victor Pelevin
Suzy Hansen
A cynical Russian copywriter channels advertising advice from the ghost of Che Guevara in this savage satire of the post-Soviet corporate underworld.
“Radiance” by Carter Scholz
Andrew O'Hehir
In this Pynchonesque tale of technocracy in the Clinton years, two rival physicists working in a weapons lab play footsie with the apocalypse.
“The Rotters’ Club” By Jonathan Coe
Amy Reiter
The 1970s are anything but smiley faces and bell-bottoms for a family facing adultery, racial turmoil and identity crises in post-imperial England.
A “Friends”-shaped hole
Carina Chocano
Sure, they're back for one more year, but -- I never thought I'd say this -- I'll miss them when they're gone.
Why blacks love Bill Clinton
Suzy Hansen
DeWayne Wickham talks about African-Americans' overwhelming support for the 42nd president, and why they like him more than Colin Powell and Jesse Jackson.
The battle of Nashville
Edward Morris
After the Country Music Foundation purged beloved longtime employees, some fans and scholars fear that "new country" is invading hallowed ground.
Too Bizzaro for words
Amy Standen
Richard Bizzaro could serve 20 years for disrupting a recent Delta flight. Was he actually acting out the heroic impulses we're supposed to be cultivating?
The chill is gone
Richard Blow
The once-great Stephen King has been recycling his plots and characters for 20 years now. It's time he made good on his threats to retire.
Islam, democracy and Rosie
Salon Staff
Readers respond to an interview with Tariq Ramadan, and O'Donnell's coming out.
With Snoop Dogg and the wild tummy shirt girls at Mardi Gras
Brett Forrest
Outside, the crowd resembled an endless copulation of confused ants. Inside, a woman attached herself to the Doggfather and squirmed in the light of temporary stardom.
Tariq Ramadan: The Muslim Martin Luther?
Paul Donnelly
The author of "To Be a European Muslim" discusses terrorism, the problem of Saudi Arabia and whether Islam can peacefully coexist with the West.
See no evil
Laura Rozen
As prosecutors present graphic evidence of Balkans atrocities, accused war criminal Slobodan Milosevic yawns and looks away and calls his trial "illegal."
Surrealist love poems
Cary Tennis
Could it be that such derangement can rescue us from a torpor of the senses?
Axis of stupidity
David Talbot
Bush's black-and-white rhetoric fails to grasp the complexity of the world. It doesn't even reveal the truth about the darkness of Iraq.
Possum capital of the South
Randall Williams
A bizarre tale of muskets, cross-dressing and marsupial hoisting in the Southern town once accused of hiding notorious fugitive Eric Rudolph.
Make Iran a friend, not a foe
Cameron Kamran
President Bush's demonizing of Iran is a shortsighted move that misses a rare opportunity to improve relations with a crucial regional player.
His master’s voice
Eric Boehlert
This just in: President Bush dishes out overblown al-Qaida threats -- and the press laps them up.
“American Porn”
Charles Taylor
A "Frontline" report on one of the biggest businesses in the U.S. is an expos
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