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Anniversaries
David Alford
Like all the other blazoned dates of our lives, private and public, Sept. 11, too, will fade away.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
Readers react to my defense of Sullivan. Plus: Jeb Bush's strange complaint of Christian persecution.
Real Life Rock Top 10
Greil Marcus
“One Man’s Bible” by Gao Xingjian
Amy Reiter
From China's Nobel laureate, the story of a writer who survived the Cultural Revolution and the price he paid to do so.
Party like it’s 1988
Porter Fox
Tequila! Kung fu! Spandex wedgies! Catching an end-of-summer buzz with ex-Van Halen frontmen Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth's nonreunion tour.
Climate of terror
Glenn Scherer
Global warming could devastate the poorest and most strife-ridden regions of the world -- leading to a violent uprising against the nation that uses the most resources.
“The Book of Illusions” by Paul Auster
Michelle Goldberg
A bereaved man becomes obsessed with the riddle of a great silent film star's disappearance.
“Tourmaline” by Joanna Scott
Suzy Hansen
An American family seeking its fortune hunting precious gems on the island of Elba finds mystery and adulterous passion instead.
My argument with white nationalists
David Horowitz
They're wrong, but they're the natural outgrowth of left-wing multiculturalism. We are all prisoners of identity politics now.
Drunk with love
Cary Tennis
My musician boyfriend says he needs to be burning for me all the time but now he doesn't feel the spark.
“Undisputed”
Stephanie Zacharek
It's definitely time for a nasty-good prison boxing flick. But despite Ving Rhames' muscles and some butt-kicking action, this isn't it.
Chasing Steinbeck … with children
Rachel F. Elson
Andromeda Romano-Lax set out to retrace the writer's path to the Sea of Cortez. But while Steinbeck's book bears little mention of his wife, Romano-Lax's is driven by the presence of her own family.
“0wnz0red”
Cory Doctorow
Programmers who hack their own bodies don't need exercise and never get sick: A new short story from one of science fiction's bright young stars.
Embracing death
Susanna Stromberg
A recent study says that parents who hold their stillborn infants may be traumatized by the experience. Yes, the moments I spent with my dying newborn were the most painful of my life -- but they were also the richest.
Expect the worst … and be happy!
Ranted by Cary Tennis
In an era of diminished expectations, those of us who've never had much hope to begin with are starting to feel lucky.
Killers among us
Salon Staff
Readers respond to a review of "Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago" and an interview about perpetrators of genocide.
Bamboo Dick, first in flight
Debbi Gardiner
What's all this fuss about the Wright brothers? All good Kiwis know New Zealand's Richard Pearse got there first.
An equine renaissance
King Kaufman
Arlington Park's owner rebuilt it after it burned, only to shut it down. Now the gleaming racetrack is bringing the Breeders' Cup to the Midwest.
“Blue Crush”
Charles Taylor
Saga of surfer girls in Hawaii is a snooze. On land, that is. On the water, it might be the most intense visual experience you'll find at the movies this year.
Long live the King
Alex Halberstadt
Elvis Presley died 25 years ago this week, and his hardcore fans are getting "too old to shag." But the bizarre and marvelous world of Elvismania will never die.
The conspiracy theory that wouldn’t die
Damien Cave
Did a shadowy group of American diplomats threaten the Taliban last year, provoking the 9/11 attack? Many on the left think so. Now the diplomats tell their side of the story.
Hot pursuit of a nonstory
Eric Boehlert
Grandstanding members of Congress, abetted by the celebrity-obsessed news media, are blowing Martha Stewart's stock trade way, way out of proportion.
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