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Sex, capitalism and antidepressants
Mary Gaitskill, Rick Moody
Two writers wrestle with the impossibility of literature in a society that's afraid of the dark.
Clinton’s last dance
Alicia Montgomery
Polls split on convention bounce, fur flies in Playboy party fight and Farrakhan holds back on Lieberman.
President Clinton: Thumbs up!
Peter Leyden
He presided over the digital revolution and helped fuel the explosive growth of the new economy. That's how he'll be remembered.
It’s Splitsville in Long Beach
Anthony York
The short-lived marriage between Perot loyalists and Buchanan supporters is officially annulled at the Reform Party Convention.
Without a trace
Don George
Travel editor Claudia Kirschhoch disappeared in Jamaica two months ago. Could the same thing happen to you?
The death of the Red-Hot Center
Laura Miller
From literary giants tapping out the Great American novel through multiculturalism, Kmart realism and the Brat Pack to Oprah and your book club: A short history of fiction after 1960.
The sphinx
Vivian Gornick
Susan Sontag's beauty and brains made her America's most famous intellectual, but her true self is a mystery.
Our nups will bring you big bucks!
Alison Rogers
Find the sponsorship opportunity to make our special day your big break.
“The Burning of Bridget Cleary” and “Madumo: A Man Bewitched”
Mark Schone
Two cases of witchcraft, one historical and one contemporary, show the lethal results of superstition run amok.
Space “Survivor”?
Amy Reiter
Will reality TV go into orbit? Playmate denies breaking up Helen Hunt's marriage; is "Survivor's" Kelly a biter? Plus: "Livin' La Vida Loca" writer calls Republicans' use of song "perverse"!
Clinton and Presley: All shook up
Greil Marcus
They live in the common imagination, dramatizing America's most unresolved notions of what it means to be good, true and beautiful -- and evil, false and ugly.
Gadgets galore
Janelle Brown
For nerds who love Nerf balls and Jolt Cola ... an emporium of geek chic.
“The Making of Intelligence” by Ken Richardson
Christine Kenneally
A new attempt to answer a stubborn old question: If humans are such an intelligent species, why can't we figure out what IQ tests measure?
The Britney place
Merle Kessler
Spears is the flight attendant without a plane, the girl next door to a house never built.
Bad blood
Asra Q. Nomani
A young, gay black man in West Virginia is murdered. Were his killers motivated by racism and homophobia -- or by a legacy of drugs, alcohol and habitual crime?
Mediapocalypse
Rob Brezsny
Your horoscope for this week. "The universe is not made of molecules. It is made of stories."
John Waters
Daniel Reitz
It's been a long, nauseating haul, but the director of "Pink Flamingos" and the new "Cecil B. DeMented" has made it as an American icon.
E-book ’em!
Janelle Brown
AtRandom publisher Jonathan Karp is looking for literary revelation -- and mass readership -- from digital books.
Decline and fall
Charles Taylor
Jacques Barzun's new history of Western Culture is magisterial, but too soft on Nazi collaborators and too hard on the 20th century.
A hacker crackdown?
Damien Cave
As the long arm of the law reaches Napster and its lookalikes, programmers could be held responsible for what others do with their code.
Writing high
Gary Kamiya
In "Writing on Drugs," Sadie Plant embarks on a stimulating trip into literature's strangest, smokiest den.
Dottie Downturn gets mean
Dottie Downturn
Salon's arbiter of new-economy etiquette takes on egomaniacal programmers, loathsome dot-commers and tedious dog-lovers.
Eddie: What happened?
Michael Sragow
On the set of his first movie, he was young, gifted, black and beautiful. In his new one, it's just a Murphy, Murphy, Murphy, Murphy, Murphy World.
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