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A very foreign life
Pico Iyer
In Nara, Japan, a universe of connections and contradictions unfolds daily.
Airheads
Joyce Millman
Beneath all the retro stereotypes and bogus "you go, girl!" feminism, Oxygen's core message to American women is: Keep shopping!
Moonies rally against “free sex”
Hank Hyena
Waving signs declaring, "One man, one wife," students take to the streets of Seoul to promote chastity.
Black like us
Jesse Drucker
In marked contrast to the GOP candidates, with their Bob Jones/Confederate flag issues, Gore and Bradley show how to pander to minorities.
Brit's-eye view
Cathy Young
The specter of American gender extremism is making ripples across the Atlantic.
Letters to the editor
Letters to the Editor
For richer and richer: There's no holiness in this matrimony Plus: Not all religions are sexually repressive; Asian eyelids are beautiful without surgery
Dumpling-free Hong Kong
Jamie James
Hong Kong is changing. On a four-day tour of the city's culinary highlights, you can avoid the dumpling, but not the theme restaurant.
“City of God” by E.L. Doctorow
Julia Gracen
Let there be enlightenment: harrowing stories of war and vengeance interleaved with a strange tale that starts with a stolen crucifix.
Spiritual intelligence
David Bowman
An interview with Danah Zohar and Dr. Ian Marshall, authors of "SQ: Connecting With Our Spiritual Intelligence."
Spy vs. spy
Polly Shulman
Sadism and palace intrigue flavor the deliciously paranoid vision of Iain Banks.
He loves me, he loves me not
Eleanor Stacy Parker
Race was never an issue in my life -- until I fell in love.
Turning out the lights on the old New Yorker
Gavin McNett
Was it Utopia? Camelot? Paradise? Or does the possibility exist that, as fine as it once was, it was still just a magazine?
Sims in the hands of an angry God
Janelle Brown
Why are we so eager to torture the beings we've created? The latest game from Maxis opens a window into the psyche.
Confessions of a former self-hating white person
Joan Walsh
It took a broken heart to teach me that guilty white liberals aren't the solution to America's racial strife, but part of the problem.
Key to the city
Lucy McCauley
The door to Rilke's room in Spain was locked, but it turned out there are other doors to the culture.
Why is McCain backing off?
Joe Conason
The puzzling decision to let Bush off the hook about crony-style campaign fund-raising could sink the Arizona senator's insurgency.
Sharps & Flats
Michelle Goldberg
For all its pretentions, William Orbit's "Pieces in a Modern Style" makes for seductive secret listening.
“Nobrow” by John Seabrook and “No Logo” by Naomi Klein
Austin Bunn
A self-revealing reflection on the sick fixations of the media elite stalls out. Is a guerrilla war enough to wake them up?
Beware of “women's culture”
Jennifer Foote Sweeney
Francine Prose issues a stern warning in the New York Times about
market-driven pablum for women -- who are as silly, powerless and
narcissistic as a gender can get.
Strangers in the night
Christine Schoefer
Europeans have such a flair for flirting that it must be transmitted via breast milk. Why don't Americans get it?
Salon.com Adds Stanley Crouch as Columnist
Salon Staff
Essayist, Poet and Jazz Critic Joins Impressive List of Renowned Contributors
Letters to the editor
Letters to the Editor
How much blame can the '60s take? Plus: Scantily clad women have replaced Joe Camel; Japanese girls shouldn't encourage panty freaks.
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