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The year in sex: 2013
Tracy Clark-Flory
From gay marriage to Miley Cyrus, these are the moments that defined our sexual culture this year
Ethical sluts and “dirty whores”: Straight talk about sex work
Melinda Chateauvert
Has sex-positive feminism, despite its victories, forgotten that sex work is actually work, and often quite brutal?
“The Wolf of Wall Street,” inequality and the Gatsby myth
Andrew O'Hehir
Leonardo DiCaprio plays yet another Gatsby in Martin Scorsese's dizzying, allegorical "Wolf of Wall Street"
The 10 best superhero comics of 2013
Mark Peters
Superheroes aren't just on the big screen. From Spider-Man to the Hulk, these are the year's essentials
“My music is about to be world-wide”: Big Freedia’s moment
Tyler Gillespie
The New Orleans bounce artist who set the world record for most people twerking together is just getting started
2013: The worst tweets of the year
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Fights, meltdowns and Donald Trump -- our picks for the best of the worst
Salon’s What to Read Awards: Top critics choose the best books of 2013
Michele Filgate
Will it be Donna Tartt or Rachel Kushner? We've polled the best reviewers and compiled the definitive year in books
Lena Dunham: “I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute”
Alice Driver
The "Girls" creator talks to Salon about Season 3, Twitter and letting guys sleep in her bed
2013’s unexpected lesson: Hope isn’t dead
Rebecca Solnit
It's easy to despair over the state of things, but this year showed hints of a brighter future — if we fight for it
2013: The year in sexism
Mary Elizabeth Williams
"Big" thighs, Blurred Lines and post-baby bodies galore -- behold the moments the year forgot feminism
The year music videos made a comeback
Daniel D'Addario
Kanye's "Bound 2" video and Miley's exploits on the wrecking ball were the things that impacted us most in 2013
Where that Christmas feast really came from
Lindsay Abrams
Farmer and author Kurt Timmermeister on growing a feast with the help of small-scale farming
Decorative Christmas villages: A model for sustainable living?
Jeff Turrentine
These scenes appeal to our longing for a Jane Jacobs-style urbanism -- one that encourages us to walk about freely
The real history of the “war on Christmas”
Jarret Ruminski
Christmas isn't under attack -- and it's always been commercial
My atheist Christmas in China
Emily Matchar
Growing up Jewish, I never liked the holiday -- until I moved to a place that completely divorced it from religion
Justine Sacco’s aftermath: The cost of Twitter outrage
Roxane Gay
Social media offered many opportunities for (quite justified) outrage this year. But did they come at a price?
Corporate media’s rape problem: Supporting the stars, ignoring the charges
Jennifer L. Pozner
Media outlets give celebs like Roman Polanski and R. Kelly adoring coverage, and ignore rape allegations
Phil Robertson and Mike Huckabee double down on homophobia
Mary Elizabeth Williams
The "Duck Dynasty" star and former governor spend the weekend defending hateful comments
Is Santa Claus worth the heartbreak?
Sarah Sloat
Research suggests parents are even sadder than their kids when the truth comes out. Tell that to my 5-year-old self
“Her”: Romance with machines is closer than we think
Dorothy Woodend
Spike Jonze's latest is a grim reminder that we spend more time with our computers than we do with actual people
How the GOP became the “White Man’s Party”
Ian Haney-Lopez
From Nixon to Rand, Republicans have banked on the unerring support of Southern white men. Here's how it came to be
The year rock music didn’t die
Nico Lang
Maybe we haven't seen many rock blockbusters this year. But the genre's still thriving in its less-central position
Ad absurdum and the conquest of cool: Canned flattery for corporate America
Thomas Frank
We're suckers for "Mad Men" and slick '60s odes to authenticity. And in the end we're just that -- suckers
David Byrne: “Do you really think people are going to keep putting time and effort into this, if no one is making any money?”
David Daley
The musical genius shares his songwriting secrets, opens up his finances and ponders the future of art and the Web
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