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Generation byte
Andrew Leonard
"Extra Life" recalls what growing up with computers once was like -- and complains about what it has become
The Hollywood tourists never see
Jeff Greenwald
The Hollywood tourists never see: Travel writer Jeff Greenwald finds life-changing adventure on the sound stage of an NBC sitcom.
A new mecca for Silicon Valley
Simon Firth
A new mecca for Silicon Valley By Simon Firth The Tech Museum is full of innovative wonders -- just don't expect to see the Valley's darker side represented
Home Movies by Charles Taylor: Camp classic
Charles Taylor
Ernst Lubitsch's legendary comedy stirred controversy by pitting vain Polish actors against buffoonish Nazi killers.
Idiot Savants?
Kristina Zarlengo
In a new book, intellectual gadfly Alan Sokal and co-author Jean Bricmont assail the demigods of French theory for their fraudulent use of high science. But does this mean all postmodern philosophy is bunk?
The god of the information age is a trickster
R.U. Sirius
The god of the information age is a trickster By R.U. Sirius An interview with 'TechGnosis' author Erik Davis about technology's habit of hoodwinking us.
Is culture endangered in the digital age?
Chris Bray
Is culture endangered in the digital age? By Chris Bray Ironies abound at a Los Angeles conference pondering the future of museums and libraries
Making book on the Booker
Sylvia Brownrigg
Snide critics, side bets, broadcasts of unphotogenic writers hacking away at duck -- the Booker Prize ceremony may not be the Oscars, but it's as British as all get-out.
Naked and in hot water
Simon Firth
A very proper Brit packs his misgivings and ventures to a clothing-optional Northern California resort -- only to find that nudity offers more than meets the eye.
The Garner Report: October 1998
Dwight Garner
Dwight Garner highlights the most
interesting new books to be published in October 1998.
Shakespeare
Lorin Stein
Lorin Stein
reviews 'Shakespeare: The Invention Of The Human' by Harold Bloom
Circumcision in America, Part 2
Debra S. Ollivier
Despite medical and religious debunking, long-standing cultural biases keep the practice of circumcision alive.
Hate crimes go both ways
David Horowitz
Circumcision in America
Debra S. Ollivier
How did a medically pointless procedure become a routine practice performed on a majority of American males?
Michael B
Michele Tepper
While battling the critics of political correctness outside the university, the "tenured radical" also slams his fellow academics for failing to help graduate students and other untenured scholars organize.
Let's Get This Straight: The money's too good
Scott Rosenberg
Microsoft's staggering profits overshadow the courtroom fireworks of the antitrust trial's first week.
How Europe changed my life
Hank Hyena
How Europe changed my life: A summer odyssey affects a young Republican in the most unexpected way.
“Songs are for People”
David Bowman
Patti Smith talks about the people and the poetry in her new collection, 'Patti Smith Complete: Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the
Future'
Cutting his glossies
James Poniewozik
New from the editor of the late, lamented satirical rag Might comes McSweeney's, a magazine for writing that was killed by big-league glossies.
Social engineering, Web-style
Mary Eisenhart
How do online communities work? One veteran -- Salon's Cliff Figallo -- writes a book with some answers.
Letter from Laramie
Lily Burana
A transplanted New Yorker struggles to understand what the Matthew Shepard killing says about her new home state.
Beloved
Charles Taylor
Jonathan Demme panders
to Toni Morrison's guilt mongering in his brutal adaptation of 'Beloved'.
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