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Bin Laden’s other American boy soldier
Scott Rosenberg
Why aren't conservatives blaming Florida for Charles Bishop, the young bin Laden admirer who crashed his plane into a building, the way they blamed liberal California for John Walker?
California scheming
Brad Wieners
"Dot.con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold" is the first good book about one of capitalism's most embarrassing debacles.
Our favorite books
Laura Miller
From a gripping novel about terrorism to the memoir of a cross-country stripteaser, we pick the best -- that is, the most pleasurable -- reading experiences of 2001.
“Lord of the Rings” vs. “Star Wars”
Jean Tang
Peter Jackson's glorified video trivia game doesn't hold up to the grandly human epic that defined a generation.
A is for Arabs
George Rafael
From algebra and coffee to guitars, optics and universities -- an alphabetical reminder of what the West owes to the People of the Crescent Moon.
The geeks who saved Usenet
Katharine Mieszkowski
Google's restoration of digital history relied on a few heroes' packrat mentality and a mountain of decaying mag tapes.
“Seinfeld”
Bill Wyman
Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David's TV show wasn't just a sitcom -- it was one of the most complex and troubling art works of our time.
Big babies at Harvard
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
When Jesse Jackson tried to turn pampered professors into racism victims, it showed a civil rights movement unready for a new age.
Love motel
Stephen Lemons
Chas Ray Krider's photos unlock the noir sexuality of the quintessential American motor inn.
God and loss
Salon Staff
Readers respond to articles about the division of Sept. 11 funds and a Christian fundamentalist's conversion.
“Impostor”
Andrew O'Hehir
It has a Philip K. Dick story and hip references to "Blade Runner," but this sci-fi actioner is a soulless cyborg.
I studied in Yemen with John Walker
Joshua Mortensen
He was fresh from Marin, more Catholic than the pope and the other students derisively nicknamed him Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens).
The making of a hawk
David Talbot
From Kuwait to Kosovo to Kabul, American firepower has been on the right side of history. The odyssey of a former dove.
Land of the rising homemaker
Roland Kelts
Martha Stewart's first overseas venture is Japan, where stylish domesticity just might trump rigid old hierarchies.
A serial killer analyzes serial killing
Stephen Lemons
The 1960s "Moors Murderer," Ian Brady, still haunts the British psyche. His recently published book
shows why.
Don’t blame it on Reno
Jake Tapper
As Congress gears up to point fingers over pre-9/11 intelligence failures, the Clinton attorney general can plead: "I told you so"
The impossible calculus of loss
Janelle Brown
A windfall of public and private funds awaits the victims of Sept. 11.
Is it being fairly divided? Is it fair that they get far more than other victims? And will their compensation change charity and disaster
relief forever?
Touring Times Square
David Bowman
The lost seediness can still be found, if you're with the king of 42nd Street.
Time’s Person of the Year punt
Eric Boehlert
Choosing Giuliani instead of bin Laden was a clear cave-in to the magazine's business priorities. But the rest of the U.S. press isn't setting a much better example.
Fog of war
Andrew O'Hehir
"Black Hawk Down's" gripping images of the U.S. military's missteps in Somalia grope about in a context-free void.
“The Shipping News”
Charles Taylor
Kevin Spacey mucks up an otherwise pretty and pleasantly vague take on E. Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
John Walker’s brothers and sisters
Anthony York
None of the San Francisco Bay Area's many other Muslim converts followed his same ill-fated path. But is there something about their religious experience that estranges them from their own country?
“Lantana”
Andrew O'Hehir
"American Beauty" meets Bergman in this note-perfect masterwork on a modest, human scale.
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