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“Drop City” by T.C. Boyle
Laura Miller
A group of stoned, free-loving hippies set up a commune in backwoods Alaska -- and discover that Nature is a lot crueler than they dreamed.
Artificial stupidity, Part 2
John Sundman
Can chatterbots be as dumb as a box of hammers and still pass the Turing test? Go ask ALICE, she might know.
An imperialist whiff
Robert Scheer
By painful experience, the French have learned the smell of "liberation" gone sour.
Rivals and revolutionaries
Stephanie Zacharek
"Matisse Picasso," the blockbuster show of the decade, shows us how two modern-art titans saw each other across 50 years of dazzling creative competition.
A drug user’s guide to not writing
Suzy Hansen
Essayist Geoff Dyer on the difference between fiction and nonfiction (none), the usefulness of marijuana, and the importance of doing nothing.
War letters
Salon readers
Salon readers -- including an impassioned vet, a woman with a husband in Kuwait, a Gen-Xer who wants better antiwar music and a student sitting alone in Brooklyn watching "Dr. Strangelove" -- tell us how the impending war is changing their lives.
Salon recommends
Salon Staff
A debut novel about a middle school running fanatic, and more of our favorite new books.
Just pretend it will all go away
Eric Boehlert
Flagging sales? War in Iraq? Dead concertgoers? "Whatever," says a flaggng music industry hiding behind Norah Jones and Eminem at the big Grammys telecast.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Terminal One: At JFK International Airport, in an enormous swath of asphalt, glass, and aluminum flying machines, the pilot stalks old ghosts.
Orange is the new black
Tina Brown
The fashion world tries the new post-9/11 reality on for size -- and it's a poor fit. Plus: This tough-guy White House needs more gays!
She had me from the time I typed LOL
Salon Staff
We made a routine of waking up, making love like jungle monkeys, pausing for me to call in sick to work, and then back to the monkey sex.
Gender-bending
Michael Alvear
Patrick Califia used to be a woman who liked women. Now he's a man who likes men -- with a lot to say about sexual politics.
The best movie you haven’t seen
Charles Taylor
Suffused with a sense of 9/11 loss, Spike Lee's overlooked "25th Hour" is the most emotionally wrenching film of the year.
Lady Lazarus
Kate Moses
In this excerpt from "Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath," Plath's marriage begins to unravel.
The simple life
Cary Tennis
We have great lives in New York, but Code Orange is making us yearn for the suburban calm we left behind.
Salon recommends
Salon Staff
The romance of modern life in Manhattan, and more of our favorite new books.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
The tragedy that is Eero Saarinen's TWA terminal at Kennedy Airport; more Hollywood movies about airplanes. Plus: Do pilots eat the same crappy food as passengers?
“Gerry”
Stephanie Zacharek
Gus Van Sant escapes Hollywood! Famous indie director back to making boring little movies.
In search of a lost literary giant
Laura Miller
In his bittersweet documentary "Stone Reader," Mark Moskowitz tries to track down a vanished novelist -- and a fading conception of literary greatness.
“Eleven Karens” by Peter Lefcourt
Stephanie Zacharek
A sweet tale of an ordinary dude's passion for women named Karen, by one of our most disreputable pop novelists.
The Jordan fools
King Kaufman
The NBA fawns over his faded Airness, but despite offering one glimpse of his greatness, the All-Star Game showed that it's all about today.
The Salon Interview: Camille Paglia
David Talbot
Bad omen: Why the Columbia disaster should make Bush think twice about rushing to war with Iraq.
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