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Will the real Feminem please stand up
Baz Dreisinger
Is Sarai the music industry's eagerly awaited lady Slim Shady?
Night flight to Tashkent
Tom Bissell
I'm smuggling $6,300 into Uzbekistan -- and I have no experience with this sort of thing. The first chapter from a Salon contributor's travel memoir, "Chasing the Sea."
“demonlover”
Charles Taylor
Olivier Assayas' unclassifiable porn-capitalism thriller is a theory-addled nightmare -- but it's also a profound and troubling movie about contemporary life.
Reruns on the runway
Adrienne Crew
New York's Fashion Week is once again giving us something old and something borrowed. For once, how about something new?
Letters
Salon Staff
Much ado about copying: Readers respond to Scott Matthews' "Copying Isn't Cool" and other recent Salon stories on file sharing.
When corrections need correcting
Robert Scheer
The Bush team has a clever ploy: Tell politically useful lies VERY LOUDLY, then whisper a correction.
Desperately seeking capitalism’s soul
Andrew Leonard
William Greider has faith that we can inject morality into the free market. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but still, ya gotta believe.
E-fer madness
Larry Smith
In one of the more embarrassing moments in drug research history, a study that "proved" how dangerous Ecstasy is was retracted after its authors realized they actually gave monkeys speed.
Repo man
Ann M. Bauer
My husband left me and our children at least a dozen times. He was never around for the middle-of-the-night fevers or Christmas concerts. But when I needed him the most, he materialized -- with a bolt cutter.
Your biggest fan!
Tucker Carlson
I had just left the CNN set when I was handed a letter from a lawyer saying his client would soon be charging me with rape. My life, and assumptions about sex scandals, would change forever.
“Joe Jones”
Anne Lamott
An excerpt from Anne Lamott's recently re-released novel about a rundown riverfront cafe and the funny, broken people who congregate there.
The dreamer of Brooklyn
Peter Kurth
Jonathan Lethem's astonishing "The Fortress of Solitude" places him in the first rank of American novelists.
Look away, Dildo Land
Suzi Parker
The author of "Sex in the South" whoops it up at a sex-toy sales meeting in Arkansas.
“Star Trek’s” new moral frontier
Sumana Harihareswara
UPN's "Enterprise," back for its third season, has saved the Trek franchise with messy, moving and ambiguous story lines torn from the 21st century.
Not just another “nerdy white guy”
Katharine Mieszkowski
At the memorial service for Anita Borg, her colleagues and friends vow to continue her life's work, carving out room for women in the world of computer science.
The world press on the legacy of 9/11
Compiled by Laura McClure
The Guardian: Did U.S. authorities purposely fail to avert the attacks in 2001?
Different habits
Cary Tennis
I was raised to value my independence, my boyfriend to rely on his family's advice -- and now our opposing styles are clashing.
All hail the ice queen
Thomas Bartlett
As Bjork releases an extraordinary career retrospective, it's time to crown her as the most important pop musician of her generation.
Too young, too pretty, too successful
Curtis Sittenfeld
Hating Nell Freudenberger -- the 28-year-old writer celebrated in Vogue and Elle -- is a virtual cottage industry among ambitious literati. And I was ready to hate her too -- until I read her book.
The big Bangs
Roberta Cruger
A former Creem magazine colleague of Lester Bangs remembers -- and members of the Doors, the MC5, Blondie and the Mekons respond to -- the late, great rock critic's bracing vitriol.
Nano Inc. vs. Nano Think
Jack Mason
Nanotechnology, long a favorite of science fiction writers, is now real enough for government money. So let the squabbling begin!
Blair’s moment of truth
David Akerman
Did Tony "sex up" the Iraq report? A BBC producer offers an exclusive report on the crisis that has brought the prime minister to the brink.
Freddy, Jason, Megadeth and me
Tom Bissell
I'm a young, cultured New Yorker who reads Gaddis and Ishiguro. But I can't stand indie rock, I love speed metal and slasher movies, and I refuse to be ashamed anymore!
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