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Making sense of the shooting at Santana High
Salon Staff
Readers respond to Salon's coverage of the latest high school tragedy.
Chuck Barris
King Kaufman
Long before "Survivor," the eccentric who created "The Gong Show" discovered that people will do anything to get on TV, and others will watch them.
“The Last Temptation of Christ”
Andrew O'Hehir
Martin Scorsese's life-size religious portrait really was scandalous, but not because Jesus and Mary Magdalene had sex.
Deadly ambivalence
Meredith Maran
Schools need to teach our kids how much they matter. If they don't, we will see Santana and Columbine copycat shootings again and again.
Isabel Allende
Kaitlin Quistgaard
Her books don't get edited, she says Latin lovers make lousy husbands and her daughter's pornographic letters are a great read.
“Looking Good: Male Body Image in Modern America” by Lynne Luciano
Suzy Hansen
A new book says men have become obsessed with their bodies, but does the rise of hair grafts and penis-enlargement surgery really spell the end of civilization?
Digesting “Hannibal”
Gary Percesepe, Frederick Barthelme
Two noted authors discuss an unspeakable love, how the critics got it wrong -- and the semiotics of brain eating.
Dis-“Connection”
Salon Staff
Readers respond to Bill McKibben's article mourning the loss of WBUR's daily talk show.
Pierre et Gilles
Glen Helfand
An enduring couple make glittery photographs filled with myth, camp and homoeroticism.
Dragonfly’s demise
Jennifer Miller
Another progressive preschool bites the dust, leaving me and other parents livid and bereft.
Dis-“Connection”
Bill McKibben
When a Boston station locked out Christopher Lydon, it silenced public radio's most civilized -- and swinging -- talk-show host.
The Bush look
Camille Paglia
Is he quietly confident, or just stumped? Plus: Condoleezza Rice for president! Poor New York: First Hillary, now another Brooklyn Museum flap. And: The psychological poison of "The Vagina Monologues" and the ruthless grandness of Barbra.
Assault on evolution
Larry Arnhart
The religious right takes its best scientific shot at Darwin with "intelligent design" theory.
Stalker chic
Janelle Brown
Is skim.com dressing up the antisocial pervert or outfitting the terminally hip?
Box of Stones
Bruce Kluger
Is Oliver Stone a misunderstood cinematic genius or just a deluded, self-absorbed hack? A new 10-DVD box set promises some answers.
Getting uppity in suburbia
John Dicker
Have some tea with your Brandywine at Thornbury? A little Anglophilic branding will make all your insecurities go away.
“Dreamcatcher” by Stephen King and “Ordinary Horror” by David Searcy
Laura Miller
King's latest book takes a page from "The X-Files," while an elegantly literary debut tells of creeping, formless suburban terror.
Hillary Clinton’s brother gets pardon fees
Salon Staff
What's the difference between the Washington Post and The National Enquirer? "We have style," Enquirer editor says. Plus: Thursday briefing.
Eminem steals the show
Eric Boehlert
The Grammys bring in the bad boy of the moment to boost ratings.
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