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“Lives of the Psychics” and “The Second Creation”
Frank Browning
One book tries to pass off psychic hooey as science, and the other reveals the creativity at the heart of great biology research.
Let them eat Big Macs
David Downie
Will the unappetizing plans of McDonald's, the WTO and the European Union spoil classic French cuisine? Not if a 50-year-old dairy farmer from Roquefort can help it.
Exposing sexual dysfunction
Mike Perry
In his new book on men's health, an endocrinologist encourages men to talk more about their penises and prostates.
The real Sylvia Plath
Kate Moses
Her newly published, unexpurgated journals reveal the poet's true demons -- and support a little-known theory about what drove her to suicide. First of two parts.
Letters to the editor
Salon Staff
Is Prozac a crutch? Plus: Tips for saving your sex life on antidepressants; Did homophobia drive apart the brothers Nabokov?
Shanghaied in Tinseltown
Neil Gordon
John Fante was one of America's great writers, encountering equal measures of victory and defeat during a decades-long career. But did Hollywood strangle his talent, or did he do it himself?
Talking dirty
Susan McCarthy
Bring on the germs. Too much cleanliness may be
making some people sick. First of two parts.
“The Binding Chair” by Kathryn Harrison
Laura Morgan Green
Is the author's latest abused-woman fantasy -- this one set in China and France in the early decades of the 20th century -- revelatory or pornographic?
Hell on earth
Albert DiBartolomeo
When a kidney stone taught me the meaning of agony, I also learned the limits of my own weak self.
The town that haunts Al Gore
Jake Tapper
How an incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio, pollutes the vice president's reputation as a friend of the earth.
Tasty spam?
Lydia Lee
If companies served up e-mail right, consumers would beg for it, says Hans Peter Br
Bush busts loose
Alicia Montgomery
Bad medicine in Texas, pandering diagnosis for Gore and Whitewater fever hits Hillary.
Chunky Chinese
Jack Boulware
A growing number of spoiled only children are obese, and may face diminished future sex lives because of it.
The LASIK “miracle”
Tate Gunnerson
Thousands of people swear by the laser eye surgery, but are they throwing away their glasses too soon?
The worst diagnosis
Michael Castleman, Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, Ph.D., Matthew Naythons
An intellectual couple facing Alzheimer's finds great love and tenderness.
The end of the general practitioner
Robert Burton
When pharmacists know so much, why do we need family docs?
Sex, lies and suicide
Jonathan Ellis
While championing family values, former Hillsdale President George Roche III was sleeping with his daughter-in-law.
Is being hooked a choice?
Andy Dehnart
A new book argues that all addictions are a matter of free will, even heroin and coffee.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Is it time to kill off Santa? Plus: Defending Mogwai's music; tell Amy Reiter that conservatives never suffer guilt!
It's too late, baby
Garrison Keillor
My husband finally quit drinking so I wouldn't leave him, but now I can't imagine ever letting him touch me again.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Why send a prude to cover a bondage party? Plus: Mom should worry more about kid's health than Ritalin's stigma; what the heck's an "Agilent," anyway?
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