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In search of granny porn
Carol Lloyd
Over grilled chicken salad and shrimp tacos, former libertine Germaine Greer celebrates the "chocolate eros" of Sammy Sosa, the virtues of
heart attacks and the red-hot libidos of circumcised Sudanese women.
Has feminism changed science?
Margaret Wertheim
Two new books enter the dangerous territory where cold facts meet hot tempers.
Lauryn Hill: Hoochie or hero?
Debra Dickerson
The black community debates the singer's icon status in light of her unwed motherhood.
“Star Wars” Central
Salon Staff
Salon stories inspired by the world's most popular science-fiction fairy tale.
Letters to the editor
Letters to the Editor
Too much sex with the locals; the Web brain-drain continues.
Curing with compassion
Alyson Mead
Beth Israel Hospital in New York brings in the Dalai Lama to dedicate a new space.
The rehabilitation of Latrell Sprewell
Julian Rubinstein
The Knicks star has gone from villain to hero -- because he challenged authority in a city sick of The Man.
Games don't kill people — do they?
Greg Costikyan
Before we rush to damn the video-game industry, let's remember: There's both bad and good in blowing up pixels.
Fighting fear with fear
Chris Colin
In "The Culture of Fear," Barry Glassner says we scare too easily. But does he have to be so scary about it?
My sacred place
Pico Iyer
For an introspective wanderer, a two-room flat in a generic Japanese suburb offers all the possibilities of a traditional shrine.
I know what girls want
Jenn Shreve
Four feminist zines give their anti-Cosmo versions of the modern woman. Plus: The Stranger celebrates the Seven Deadly Sins, and the Willamette Week makes one writer cry on her keyboard.
Professor Neurotoxicity
Jill Priluck
A renegade researcher believes the teenage killers of Columbine could have been driven to crime by environmental poisoning.
“The General’s Daughter”
Andrew O'Hehir
John Travolta's dancing days are definitely over, but who knew his acting days were numbered, too?
“Moab Is My Washpot”
Charles Taylor
A desperate determination to amuse mars the English actor's memoir of his first 20 years.
Riding shotgun
James Poniewozik
Five years ago Thursday, a white Bronco rolled onto an L.A. freeway -- and ran over the barriers between the media and everybody else.
Dangerous love
Julia Gracen
The murder of a romance novelist by her dashing but abusive husband has fans asking tough questions.
Bertolucci's better half
Michael Sragow
Clare Peploe, one of film's finest female directors, talks about her rare collaboration with husband Bernardo Bertolucci on his first real love story.
The great Silicon Valley soap opera
Janelle Brown
Gates as a villain? Jobs an egomaniac? "Pirates of Silicon Valley" doesn't dig too deeply for insight, but it's fun.
The Silicon Valley myth with a life of its own
Michael Mattis
In "Pirates," HP, Xerox and other big companies play the fools of the PC revolution, and only the lone visionary "gets it."
Linux and Microsoft — together at last
Andrew Leonard
A new round of benchmark tests pits free-software hackers against the gang from Redmond in a race for operating-system supremacy.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Punk pioneer Mike Watt declines his glass coffin; ease up on Jar Jar already!
The making of Henry Louis Gates, CEO
Craig Offman
When a trio of scholars decided to partner with Microsoft to create a pan-African encyclopedia, was it a match made in progressive corporate heaven or the founding of an ivory-tower gulag?
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