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Che and Diana: The Shocking Untold Story
Arthur Allen
In a book proposal for his autobiography, Cuba's maximum leader Fidel Castro outs his brother, calls Robert Kennedy a "complete fool" and compares Che Guevara to Princess Diana.
Media Circus: Get your bodice-ripping hands off my genre!
Tracy Jones
There hasn't been a heaving bosom in a decent romance novel for years -- but there has been plenty of guilt-free, female-friendly sex. Maybe that's why men keep bashing romances.
Media Circus
James Surowiecki
Following GQ's lead, Details and Esquire are hoping that beefed-up sports coverage will put them in the end zone.
Conservatism needs a transplant
David Horowitz
UNTIL THE RIGHT GETS A HEART, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL KEEP PUTTING DEMOCRATS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Clicking for Godot
Scott Rosenberg
Salon 21st: Clicking for Godot: By Scott Rosenberg. In the world of interactive art, everyone's waiting for the next Shakespeare -- or at least hoping that computers can deliver a good time.
Media Circus
Chris Haines
With the reissuing of "Valley of the Dolls," the great unsung genre of the late 20th century -- the Shopping and Fucking Novel -- finally gets some respect.
How Zurich invented the modern world
Carlos Fuentes
A distinguished Mexican novelist reflects on Thomas Mann, Zurich and the imagination of Europe.
Your money's no good here
Tim Cahill
Visiting a cashless culture provides new perspectives on our sense of money and self.
Arundhati Roy
Reena Jana
Salon magazine: The Salon Interview: Arundhati Roy. The author of 'The God of Small Things' talks about India, the obscenity charge she faces and how writing is like architecture. By Reena Jana.
One nation, undercover
Laura Miller
"Underworld," Don DeLillo's ambitious attempt at the Great American Novel, prompts one to quote Henry James: "I liked all of it, except the whole thing."
21st: Apple apostates
Jenn Shreve
Veteran Mac software developers are working for Microsoft. Do they feel they've "gone over to the dark side"? No way.
an academic lynching
David Horowitz
Why a veteran professor of law is being strung up for saying the obvious
Death of a Fat Girl
Lori Leibovich
Is Christina Corrigan's mother on trial for neglect -- or for having an obese child?
Death of a fat girl
Lori Leibovich
Is Christina Corrigan's mother on trial for neglect -- or for having an obese child?
Media Circus: The amazing rise of Captain Crunch
Catherine Seipp
Derided as a visigoth cereal magnate, Mark Willes has slimmed, trimmed, and invigorated the all-too-comfy L.A. Times.
Media Circus: Dedicated Swallower of Fashion
James Surowiecki
If you can get out of the wayof the chortling supermodels and the Manchurian Candidate outerware, Vogue's 730-page fall fashion issue ain't half bad.
Not alone anymore
Dan Kennedy
The Internet allows disabled people and their loved ones to find resources -- and community.
Newsreal: rising body count
Dominic Patten
"Natural Born Killers" has a grisly legacy that continues to grow.
Summer Movie Soundtracks
Cynthia Joyce
They don't always have much to do with the movies that inspired them, but some are worth hearing anyway.
Newsreal: Fat people, get real!
Lori Leibovich
Stop the insanity, get out of the zone. And don't under any circumstances tell yourself it's ok to be obese.
A Macabre Sporting Event: Why Funerals Play So Well on TV
Steven D. Stark
Sexing the Machine
Laura Miller
Three digital women debate gender, technology and the Net. An e-mail roundtable with authors Ellen Ullman and Sadie Plant.
vive la kiddie pool
Debra S. Ollivier
In this first of an occasional series of dispatches by an expatriate mom, the author belly-flops into a cultural gulf at her Parisian swimming pool.
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