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Life and life only
Charles Taylor
At the top of his form, Philip Roth delivers an astounding novel about three issues that make Americans crazy: Race, sex and Monica.
Make talk, not love
David Bowman
David Allyn talks about his history of the sexual revolution, in which he says talking about sex is sexier than sex.
“African Ceremonies”
Karen Templer
A photographic masterwork illuminates a continent's life-spanning range of cultural rites.
After Columbine
Salon Staff
Read Salon's full coverage of the ongoing debate over gun control, the
Internet, music, race and adolescent alienation.
All about Vicky
Sean Elder
Tina Brown's Talk may have more than it bargained for in its new executive editor.
Original outline
Salon Staff
Stunning new Columbine charges
Dave Cullen
On the eve of the massacre's anniversary, a flurry of lawsuits by
victims' families allege that law enforcement killed a student -- and
failed to save many more.
Where do Peeps come from?
Lisa Gidley
Visiting the birthplace of Easter's innocent marshmallow icons -- and the Web sites that twist and transform them.
Finland — the open-source society
Andrew Leonard
In the icy, cellphone-mad birthplace of Linux, networks rule. It's a matter of survival.
“Down the vagina trail”
Pamela Grossman
"The Vagina Monologues" writer Eve Ensler on laughter, desire and reentering her own nether regions.
Three cheers for the brave new activism
Bill McKibben
Let's hope the tactics that have rocked free-traders can also change the hearts and minds of SUV-driving, overconsuming Americans.
Not just a Seattle sequel
Bruce Shapiro
The protests surrounding this weekend's meetings of the IMF and World Bank are the next step in the backlash to globalization.
America's greatest sexologist
Daniel Harris
A new biography of Alfred C. Kinsey shows he not only studied many forms of sexual behavior but experimented with them as well.
Sharps & Flats
Michelle Goldberg
The vision of a Valkyrian dominatrix, Ute Lemper steps into a smoky cabaret with songs by Tom Waits, Kurt Weill, Nick Cave and Elvis Costello.
A visit from Ricky Martin and Selena
Carlos Amantea
Whoa! That's not you-know-who and you-know-who riding up the beach on a palomino, is it?
“Ravelstein” by Saul Bellow
Lorin Stein
The Nobel laureate offers a fictional portrait of his gay friend Allan Bloom -- and of the erotic fulfillment he himself found late in life.
World Bank and IMF: Good, evil or irrelevant?
Daryl Lindsey
On the eve of the A16 protests, experts discuss the roles of the international financial organizations and the Seattle protests in this weekend's battle over globalization.
Celeste takes it to The Man
Jake Tapper
Meet one blond, bright-eyed, dreadlocked anarchist ready to take it to the streets.
Soul of the suburbs
Andrew O'Hehir
From "American Beauty" to the New York Times, those who satirize and celebrate the burbs seldom understand how they got the way they are.
Twilight of the crypto-geeks
Ellen Ullman
Lone-wolf digital libertarians are beginning to abandon their faith in technology uber alles and espouse suspiciously socialist-sounding ideas.
Minds wide shut
Robert S. Boynton
A new book makes the CIA's Cold War skulduggery look upright compared with the self-deceptions of the intellectuals who were on the agency's payroll.
Songs that kill
Sarah Vowell
In the dark comic world of "American Psycho," pop is an essential soundtrack to murder.
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