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Salon Staff
The musings of an obsessive-compulsive office worker, the memoirs of a literary master and more.
My crush on Musharraf
Asra Q. Nomani
With his dogs, drinking, frameless glasses
and Armani suits, he's reviled by
extremists.
No facts, please — we’re British
Trevor Butterworth
Americans are flocking to feisty British papers for news about the war. But there's a reason the U.S. media fails to follow up on the Brits' "scoops" -- they're frequently not true.
Enron, we hardly knew ye
Andrew Leonard
Ironically, only one thing could have saved the now-imploding corporate poster child for deregulation: Tougher regulations requiring more financial "transparency."
Recipe for disaster
Amy Reiter
Martha Stewart faces mutiny after demanding that employees host company dinners; Hurley admits she's pregnant! Plus: Stiller makes like Hurley, and more!
America’s hypocritical p.c. mullahs
Eric Boehlert
Before Sept. 11, right-wingers denounced politically correct "censorship." Now they're applauding the muzzling of left-wing war critics.
“Stranger Things Happen” by Kelly Link
Laura Miller
In these dazzling, uncanny stories, myth becomes part of everyday life and Nancy Drew visits the underworld in search of her long-lost mother.
Anthrax? Big deal
Asra Q. Nomani
While a quaking American media blathers obsessively about being on the front lines of bioterrorism, a Pakistani newsroom goes calmly about its business after its own spore scare.
David Lynch
Brian Libby
The pleasant, bizarre filmmaker who gave us the Lynchian world insists that now, more than ever, we must face the darkness.
Kiss Harry Potter goodbye
Tracy Mayor
The handful of days left before the movie comes out are our last chance to remember J.K. Rowling's young wizard as we imagined him.
Salon’s Sept. 11 book list
Salon Staff
Our updated selection of recommended reading for those hungry to learn more about the crisis facing the U.S.
Tarnished glossies need to shine again
Janelle Brown
In the wake of Sept. 11, will the fashion magazines stop catering to socialite snobs in stilettos?
On dying young
Margaret Morganroth Gullette
In emergencies, after disasters, youth is a powerful fantasy.
Dumpster diving on the Web
Katharine Mieszkowski
The Internet Wayback Machine aims to archive everything online. But will copyright laws leave nothing but junk?
“Monsters, Inc.”
Charles Taylor
The new animated feature from Pixar has too much Disney pap and not enough Gothic.
Have sex like a queer!
David Bowman
Sex guru and "Pucker Up" author Tristan Taormina talks about opening all the doors, then goes shopping for a dog collar.
Roger Payne
Amy Standen
After fighting to protect whales for 30 years, the biologist who discovered that humpbacks sing still feels nothing but awe for the huge "impossible animals."
A Jew in the mosque
Suzy Hansen
A self-described "average Israeli" talks about his daring journey to pray with the Holy Land's Muslims and Christians -- and why Arafat cannot head a Palestinian state.
Getting high with the Sufis
Sean Kenny
A British journalist spends a night in a Pakistani graveyard with the drummers and dancers of Islam's Aquarian branch.
Chowing down
Laura Miller
Jim Crace, author of "Being Dead" and literary fiction's most eloquent atheist, talks about his optimistic embrace of the natural world, the art of lying and why half his new book is about food poisoning.
Sam Phillips, the Sun king
Alex Halberstadt
The first man to record Elvis talks about rock, racism and all-girl radio.
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