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Flesh and ink
Christopher Hawthorne
The director of "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" talks about sensationalism, nudity, the death of cinema, his passion for lists, his new film, "The Pillow Book," and his big plans for the Internet.
M. Scott Peck
Bill McKibben
The Road Best Traveled: In his latest book, 'Denial of the Soul,' M. Scott Peck argues against the conventional wisdom that euthanasia and assisted suicide are often the right choice. Bill McKibben describes how Peck might actually change your mind on the subject.
Stephen Levine
Fred Branfman
Suicide isn't painless: Death guru Stephen Levine wants to legalize assisted suicide -- but only for physical reasons. In other situations, taking one's life is just impatient, sloppy, a "shortcut." Fred Branfman interviews the popular author
Let's Get This Straight: May 1997 archives
Scott Rosenberg
Marching to the beat of a not-so-dumb drummer
Sarah Vowell
The Foo Fighters' "The Colour and the Shape" proves ex-Nirvana member Dave Grohl is still the most powerful drummer in rock 'n' roll.
Media Circus: Mickey Mice Unite!
Bruce Shapiro
Disney's $700 million man, Michael Eisner, puts the squeeze on workers at home while his Mom 'n' apple-pie company tosses workers 6 cents an hour abroad
The people's critic
Gary Kamiya
A review of American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America by Robert Hughes.
Christianity's Race-Mixers
Dan Ramirez
400 million strong, Pentecostals -- Holy Rollers, tongue-speakers, "negro ranters" -- have been called "Christianity's Third Force." And after generations in separate wildernesses, Pentecostal churches are returning to their original vision of inclusion across racial and cultural lines -- a vision some critics brand as heretical.
This nerd for hire
Andrew Leonard
A "pro-labor" court decision puts the cherished freedom of Silicon Valley's freelance workers under fire.
Going mobile
Andrew Leonard
Silicon Valley workers like to move from job to job. One economist says that's a key to the region's success.
Southern culture on the skids
Sarah Vowell
Oxford American's Southern music issue needs more grits, less gravy.
twilight of the old goats
D.T. Max
Salon magazine: Mailer, Roth and Bellow refuse to go quietly. By D.T. Max
Media Circus
Dwight Garner
The First Annual Counter-Clio (Schmio?) Awards give the worst TV ads their day in the sun
SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal
Kate Rix
Did we really nosh on each other's body parts -- or are we merely feeding on the dark recesses of fear and imagination?
Media Circus: Scot on the rocks
Sara Baird
Fueled by ecstasy, Guinness and inspiration, "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh parties his way across the U.S.
SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal
David Horowitz
Military justice is starting to resemble the Southern "justice" of yore -- stacked against black men. And it's white feminists who are doing the stacking.
Look back in lust
Carrol Lloyd
A review of Sexplorations by Anka Radakovich and What Wild Ecstasy by John Heidenry.
Sucking down booze, sucking up to corporations
Lori Leibovich
Anne Matthews paints a
none-too-pretty picture
of life on campus in
"Bright College Years."
The Salon Interview: Fernanda Eberstadt
Cynthia Joyce
An interview with novelist Fernanda Eberstadt, author of When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth, Isaac and his Devils, and "Low Tide."
Wounds, peak experiences, and the vomit theory of art
Mark Schapiro
For inspiration, Peter Gabriel looks to the world the soul -- and bodily fluids.
Gay in the USA
Johnny Ray Huston
Three new books reflect the mainstreaming of gay culture -- and demonstrate a willingness to confront some painful realities.
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