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Introducing the Garner Report

Dwight Garner
Salon introduces the Garner Report, a monthly roundup of new books

Let's Get This Straight: Sad and lonely in cyberspace?

Scott Rosenberg
Why the new Net-depression study is something to get bummed about.

The st*r report

James Poniewozik
Endless rating systems have already begun to supplant real criticism; innovations in electrocriticism may further blur the line between reccomendations and reviews.

Slaves to the system

Nina Siegel
For vast numbers of women behind bars, prison is a hell of sexual terror.

The Farming Of Bones

Dan Cryer
Dan Cryer reviews 'The Farming of Bones' by Edwidge Danticat

Breathing lessons

Arthur Allen
Childhood asthma is one of the most insidious, endemic afflictions in the black community. Why is conquering it so difficult?

Play money

Andrew Leonard
Is Silicon Valley talent souring on stock options?

Just the facts, RAM

Christopher Ott
Just the facts, RAM: By Christopher Ott. Computers in the classroom promote a conservative vision of education -- but liberals don't seem to have noticed.

I want you so bad

Carol Lloyd
Now that our President has confessed to adultery, will the American people follow him to the pillory?

Get Cynical

David Bowman
David Bowman talks to Bob Mould about his 'Last Dog and Pony Show'

Oh when the gays come dancing in

Rebecca Bryant
Rebecca Bryant reports on the physical -- and emotional -- revelations of Gay Games V in Amsterdam.

Jungle Love

Laura Miller
Why, when it comes to romance, do we treat each other so badly? Laura Miller reviews two new movies which investigate that question

I'm gonna git you, suckhead

Charles Taylor
Wesley Snipes stars as the slick vampire-killer in 'Blade,' based on the first black Marvel Comics superhero.

The truth about guidebooks

Dawn MacKeen
Dawn MacKeen reports from firsthand experience on why you shouldn't trust everything your guide tells you.

The view from Europe

Salon Staff
Salon correspondents in Amsterdam, Paris and Munich report on the local reaction to President Clinton's speech.

Master of allusion

Scott McLemee
When a philosopher creates a video game about Vegas, the payoff is fascinating but elusive.

The truth about guidebooks

Dawn MacKeen
Dawn MacKeen reports from firsthand experience on why you shouldn't trust everything your guide tells you.

New life for old buzzwords

Scott Rosenberg
'Interactive Excellence' argues for new standards to make sense of the media onslaught.

Movie Interview: Acting weird

Elgy Gillespie
Nicolas Cage talks about selling imperfection.

The Truth About Guidebooks

Dawn MacKeen
Dawn MacKeen reports from firsthand experience on why you shouldn't trust everything your guide tells you.

Is it sex or is it art?

Janelle Brown
Is it sex, or is it art? By Janelle Brown. In Austria, right-wingers take aim at a Net arts group for peddling porn. But maybe they've just got the wrong URL.

Just do it, Bill

Fred Branfman
Why the president should just come clean about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.

The mother of masochism

Molly Weatherfield
When Dominique Aury (1907-1998) died this year, an unflinching notion of sexuality went with her. A eulogy for the mysterious woman who wrote 'The Story of O.'

The autocrat of the coffee table

James Poniewozik
A recent exhibit of TV Guide covers makes it clear that the magazine's great success has been its humble acceptance of the fact that it was never meant to be much more than a coffee table coaster and its refusal to change its kitschy, limited-use format.
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