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King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Sheryl Swoopes' coming out was no big deal. That's a big deal. Plus: Barkley's first dunk.
Afghan women’s rights meet bad-hair day
Katharine Mieszkowski
On Yahoo U.K.'s list of Web sites for "ladies," even women in Afghanistan aren't safe.
Women’s studies
Rebecca Traister
Chick lit is often dissed for being trashy and dumb. Back off! These novels of fashion and family are recording women's history.
Soul man
Charles Taylor
In a vast new biography, Peter Guralnick takes on the late, great, silky-smooth crooner Sam Cooke.
Not your father’s Ramadan
Larry Blumenfeld
Sengalese superstar Youssou N'Dour, who protested the Iraq war, talks about the beauty of Africa, Sufism and his fight against fundamentalism.
Plame games
Michael Scherer
The GOP spin: Smear Wilson (again), belittle the charges. The Dems' spin: Bush and his enforcers lied us into war.
We see dead people?
Priya Jain
In a follow-up to her bestselling "Stiff," Mary Roach searches for proof of the afterlife -- and finds some startling (and scary) evidence.
No longer the “Right Man”
Sidney Blumenthal
Conservatives are raging against Bush to hide the utter failure of their ideology.
Intelligent designer
Gordy Slack
The chief defender of intelligent design in the Dover evolution trial insists he has science and God on his side.
Pass the mike
Mark Hatch-Miller
Def Jam went from a dorm room to a music empire. Its famous founders are gone -- is the label still good?
The long goodbye: Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking”
Andrew O'Hehir
In her extraordinary memoir, Joan Didion grieves for her family and connects with her past — and us
The blogger as starmaker
Cory Doctorow
Never mind the inventors -- Andrea's posts make things happen. Chapter 6 of "Themepunks."
Dub masters
Sumana Harihareswara
In an obscure corner of the cable TV universe, "Uncle Morty's Dub Shack" is giving Asian B movies a hilarious new life.
The blogger who loathed me
Steve Almond
My cyber-nemesis had been trashing me for months. Then we met, and I had a chance to take a terrible revenge.
Letters
Salon Staff
Symbols of misogyny or simple sex toys? Readers respond to Meghan Laslocky's article about Real Dolls.
America’s new jazz museum! (No poor black people allowed)
Larry Blumenfeld
Jazz musicians warn against the Disney-fication of New Orleans.
Just like a woman
Meghan Laslocky
Thousands of men are shelling out $6,500 for hyper-realistic dolls that answer all their needs -- and don't talk back.
Oprah’s book flub
Hillary Frey
Her latest pick -- James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces" -- is bad news for her viewers and her show.
Pink is the new black
Ayelet Waldman
Does "shopping for the cure" cheapen the reality of breast cancer?
Why the U.S. must leave Iraq
Michael Scherer
Sen. Russ Feingold says it's time to admit the war was a disaster -- and accuses his fellow Democrats of going along with Bush out of fear.
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