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No laughing matter
Damien Cave
BANG! POW! ZAP! Online comics come under assault from the art form's old guard.
Virus horror!
Dan Dinello
In a new era of movies like the Farrelly brothers' "Osmosis Jones," we die from bugs, not bombs.
A reply to my critics
Ranted by Cary Tennis
The author of "My Name Is George, and I'm an Alcoholic" clarifies his views.
Holding up the rear
Amy Standen
Where did all that start-up money go? Clue No. 1: Today's dot-com auctions are flooded with opulent Aeron chairs.
Jayne Mansfield: The brand called two
Andrew Nelson
The screen siren cleverly made herself into an icon, but then the audience stopped wanting what she was selling. What happened?
“The Sappho Companion” by Margaret Reynolds
Laura Miller
Genius? Pervert? Seducer and murderer? Homely bluestocking? Nymphomaniac? Every age has its own version of the woman whose 2,600-year-old verses invented the poetry of love.
Nellies need not apply
Michael Alvear
Gay culture celebrates effeminacy as a social ideal. Why does it ridicule it as a sexual one?
Chapter 15: Thursday, Nov. 2
Alfred Alcorn
In which there's a managerial inspection of the erotic Ms. Tangent, and Norman suspects he's seen Dr. Penrood's back on video.
Battle for the bloc
Anthony York
Bush's agonizing over stem cell research points up the administration's effort to woo the Catholic vote -- at a time when many say it no longer exists.
“The winner dies” and “Coming out of the closet”
Salon Staff
Readers respond to Janelle Brown's report on anorexia and Melissa Levine's story about being straight.
A conversation with Terry Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes
Rex Doane
The director of "Crumb" and the acclaimed cartoonist-author of "David Boring" team up on "Ghost World," a new film specifically for weirdos.
“Ghost World”
Andrew O'Hehir
Two teenage girls spring to life in Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff's comic tale of obsessives, compulsives and searchers for authenticity.
Dept. of “Oops”
Katharine Mieszkowski
After four years, heeere's "Wild at Start," a documentary celebrating visionary new-economy entrepreneurs!
“The winner dies”
Janelle Brown
A Web-based pro-anorexia movement provides a bizarre support network for starving girls.
The incredible vanishing book review
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to Kevin Berger's story about smaller book review sections in the age of market research.
Salon recommends
Salon Staff
A peek into the romance between Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman, and more.
What’s wrong with the rock ‘n’ roll biz, you ask?
Salon Staff
People are treated like ATM machines, that's what! Readers sound off on the music industry's woes.
Larry Clark
Stephen Lemons
Hide your children! The director of the controversial new film "Bully" and 1995's "Kids" talks about sex, violence and parenting.
Letters
Salon Staff
Psychologist Ross Greene, author of "The Explosive Child," responds to pediatrician Lawrence Diller's review of his book.
The amazing disappearing book review section
Kevin Berger
Enthralled by marketing surveys, the newspaper industry's managerial caste has decreed that readers want more space devoted to the Backstreet Boys than to books.
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