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Moving pictures
Sarah Vowell
Why have there been more good movies in the past eight weeks than in the past eight years?
“Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials” by Wendy Kaminer
Andrew O'Hehir
American boobs will believe practically anything. But is this news?
Hillary, Naomi, Susan and Rush. Sheesh!
Camille Paglia
Clinton requires emergency intervention; Wolf's mind is amazingly slack; Faludi's "Stiffed" is a stiff. Meanwhile, Limbaugh brings a genuine intellectual service to American culture.
The loneliest man in China
Paolo Bacigalupi
In a nondescript rural restaurant, an expat is humbled by a local's worldly honesty.
On closer reading
Boris Kachka
At the fifth annual conference of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, the old guard looks for the the Young Turks to take up their bookish battle cry.
Salon.com Launches Online Audio Service with TheDial
Salon Staff
Establishes Potential New Revenue Stream via Broadcast Advertising on "Salon.com on the Dial"
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Do Catholics deserve "Dogma"? Plus: You can't define the Net by its ghettos; what did the Bible tell white supremacist killers?
I wanted to be a millionaire
Steven Scott Smith
In which our hero braves technical difficulties, arctic temperatures and too many geography questions in his quest for a fast fortune.
For the love of the game show
Joyce Millman
ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" hits the jackpot; Fox's "Greed" is
not good.
Love in a cage
David Bowman
Irish novelist Ronan Bennett talks about his years in a British prison and the difficulty of combining romance with politics.
A cooler head prevails
Fred Branfman
Psychologist Robert Firestone rejects the quick fix for bad marriage.
The accidental entertainer
John Geirland
Rob Burgess wasn't chasing cartoons -- but with Macromedia's Flash and Shockwave enabling a faux broadband experience, he's suddenly tight with Stan Lee.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
As bad as Horowitz thinks the left is, the extreme right is worse! Plus: Deciding who can say the N-word; is commerce saving Nepal or ruining it?
Shopping for paradise
Carol Lloyd
Imagine owning your own dollop of sand, with palm trees and tropical blossoms, surrounded by aquamarine water. But at what price?
A sexy librarian named Natasha and other surprises of the New Russia
Rolf Potts
I journeyed 5,000 miles to learn that God is in the weiners and William S. Burroughs is a cult star.
Gang land
Jenn Shreve
Can the same entertainment media that have popularized gang culture be used to combat gang-related violence? Plus: Men who collect penis bones; capital punishments throughout human history.
The great railway bizarre
Rolf Potts
Taiga forests, first class follies and a Slavic Lolita in short-shorts enliven the train journey that has no end.
Reaching to the converted
Gavin McNett
Oprah's Book Club introduces readers to people they already know -- themselves.
Earth, moon and stars
Andrew Long
Three photography books focus on the amazing spectacle of the planet we live on and the skies beyond.
Dancing under the mango trees
Joyce R. Lombardi
My life in a Chadian village took a roller-coaster turn when I became obsessed with the local bad boy.
Nick Tosches, the man in the leopard-skin loafers
Rex Doane
The author of "Dino," "Hellfire" and the forthcoming "The Devil and Sonny Liston" talks about the Mysterious Pig Iron Man, Hollywood and snake wrangling in Florida.
“Pokimon: The First Movie”
Lisa Moskowitz
The latest kids' movie is taken on by the real critics -- five kids.
Direct mail double cross?
Deborah Scoblionkov
A fight over opt-in marketing has anti-spam activists crying foul.
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