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What’s wrong with the Strokes?
Jennifer Maerz
They're tough and cool, have catchy songs and a great look. Why do people hate them?
When being holy hurts
Suzy Hansen
An historian talks about the modern face of "sacred pain," which religions use it the most and how self-cutters carry on the tradition.
Eve Ensler: “Afghanistan is everywhere”
Janelle Brown
The novelist, playwright and activist behind "The Vagina Monologues" talks about gender apartheid, the dangerous shedding of burqas and the seeds of violence we've begun to sow.
The misanthrope speaks
Kerry Lauerman
Neil LaBute, our leading spokesperson for the beast within, talks about art, letter bombs and critics in the wake of Sept. 11.
Are right-wing hate groups behind anthrax terror?
Anthony York
Nobody knows, because the Justice Department isn't investigating violent militants on the right the way it's monitoring Muslims, critics say.
Off track
Christopher Ott
Air disasters spotlight a need for better train service -- but American transportation policy has neglected railroads for decades.
Since you asked: The rant
Cary Tennis
Give birth to a baby you don't want? Cut your own arm off? What the heck, time's a wastin'!
New York’s ground zero of grief
Terry Golway
Staten Island lost 200 residents Sept. 11. Now the same community values that made its firefighters heroes help the community heal from its loss.
The way we thought we were
Brendan Cooney
Two months ago, ground zero was the beginning of a new world. Now a volunteer looks back and finds we've returned to the old one.
Wilma Mankiller
Andrew Nelson
The first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, she took tragedy and illness and made strength. And don't even ask where she got her name.
Salon recommends
Salon Staff
A sneak peek at the forthcoming "Lord of the Rings" film, a fat gambler in a Jaguar and more
Robert Stone: “History has come for us”
Andrew Leonard
The novelist whose book "Damascus Gate" dealt with the clash of faiths in the Middle East discusses terrorism, apocalyptic religion, military culture and the Islam bomb.
Out of the ashes
Mark Schapiro
The terror attacks have put globalization's critics on the defensive -- but have also given new momentum to their struggle.
“Beneath the Veil” redux
Janelle Brown
Documentary filmmaker Saira Shah returns to Afghanistan to find hopeful soldiers and starving children. Her film of the journey is called "Unholy War."
2001: A great year for movies
Andrew O'Hehir
While the studios distracted us with big-budget behemoths, a renaissance in art film unfolded before our eyes.
Tolkien and terror
Jim Paul
A tale of good and evil battling under the dark cloud of fear, Tolkien's masterpiece resonates with a wisdom that our recent horror allows us to understand.
The war of the wizards
Chris Petrikin
"Lord of the Rings" vs. "Harry Potter"! The inside story of how a pair of AOL Time Warner movie studios are facing off with the two biggest movie releases of the new millennium.
Xbox squared
Wagner James Au
Microsoft's game-box revolution takes the path of mediocrity, while Sony's Playstation seizes the creative high ground.
Face value
Laura Miller
Jennifer Egan, author of "Look at Me," talks about her book's prescient depiction of a terrorist sleeper, the perversities of the fashion world and why male novelists get more credit for writing about big ideas.
Guess what, the bombing worked like a charm
Christopher Hitchens
The antiwar hand-wringers kept warning us of its perils. But as the Taliban despots flee Afghan cities, and their citizens cheer, the air war's stunning efficacy is clear for all to see
“Look at Me” by Jennifer Egan
Amy Reiter
In this novel about the modern tyranny of image over substance, a fashion model's face is destroyed, then remade.
A junkie’s tale
Cary Tennis
A meditation on the sinister possibilities where heroin addiction, biochemistry and Islamism meet.
The face
Joey Sweeney
If you think the Postal Service had a hard time with the Elvis stamp, just wait until they get around to Michael Jackson.
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