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Letters
Salon Staff
Readers repond to essays on the origins of Halloween and the Salem Witch Trials.
Truly scary stuff
Salon Staff
From murderous clowns to harrowing modernity, Salon staffers pick a terrifying lineup of spooky movies and TV shows.
Early American horror show
Laura Miller
The Salem Witch Trials remain a hideous -- yet disturbingly familiar -- mystery.
Data-mining life on earth
Katharine Mieszkowski
Every blade of grass, every fish and fowl, slug and snail, has a place on the Web.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Flying Beech 99's, ogling Gulf Air's stunning stewardesses and other career highlights.
Plus: What are the scariest airports?
Once again, baseball triumphs over humanity
Keith Olbermann
Bud Selig and his goons celebrate the Fall Classic by cracking down on a Giants pitcher's tribute to a fallen friend.
The lost adventure of childhood
Laura Miller
Michael Chabon, author of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay," talks about his new kids book, "Summerland," and the freedom he fears is vanishing from children's lives.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
Katherine Harris gets some bad ink back home. Plus: Two GOP candidates in tough races are "disendorsed" by their hometown papers.
Giants in six
Joan Walsh
Baseball experts are swooning for the scrappy Angels. But the Giants are scrappy too -- and they're a better team.
“Auto Focus”
Stephanie Zacharek
Greg Kinnear's brilliant performance honors the pervert star of "Hogan's Heroes" in this sordid tale of a creepy charmer's fatal descent into the fleshpots.
“Abandon”
Charles Taylor
The writer of "Traffic" mucks up a supposed thriller about college girl Katie Holmes and her stalker ex-boyfriend.
Don’t bluff!
Salon Staff
Counting to three as a disciplinary tool is fine, says Dr. Diller, but you have to be ready to act when the counting is over.
“It seems like exactly the wrong film to make”
Ben Schwartz
Oscar-winning "Pulp Fiction" screenwriter Roger Avary attacks the teen genre -- and American complacency -- with an audacious adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' "The Rules of Attraction."
Letters
Salon Staff
Stop the war games jingoism! Readers respond to Wagner James Au's "Weapons of Mass Distraction."
Sept. 11 and wars of the world
William M. Arkin
Osama and Saddam pose real threats, but the Bush administration may be too incompetent -- and too arrogant -- to stop them.
“Knockaround Guys”
Stephanie Zacharek
Vin Diesel's muscles, Dennis Hopper's tics and John Malkovich's enunciation can't redeem a hapless mobsters-in-Montana comedy.
“Family Matters” by Rohinton Mistry
Michelle Goldberg
From the author of "A Fine Balance," a Dickensian story of a Bombay family whose members battle society to gain true love and worldly success.
“Nowhere Man” by Aleksandar Hemon
Laura Miller
The story of a Sarajevan stranded in Chicago during the recent war offers an immigrant's hilarious and wretched view of American society.
No Pistols, no Who, no Rolling Stones
Virginia Vitzthum
Why the Mekons are the only middle-aged band you don't have to be embarrassed about.
A classic conundrum
Cary Tennis
Does it make sense to stick it out with one of the few people I've ever loved, even if the sex is dreadful?
Bush has a bridge he wants to sell you — again
Eric Boehlert
Shifty logic, misinformation, cheap panaceas -- the White House marketing plan for Iraq looks a lot like the pitch for last year's tax cuts.
Twice burned
Cary Tennis
My first husband died in my arms; my second one changed his mind about wanting children. I'm 40 and devastated. Plus: Why do married men kiss me?
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