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The reel Watergate
Charles Taylor
"All the President's Men" caught the moment in which America got wise to White House corruption -- but the more recent "Dick" captures the sheer exhilaration of unseating a president.
“The Bourne Identity”
Charles Taylor
Matt Damon and Franka Potente illuminate a gripping, handsome post-Cold War thriller from "Swingers" director Doug Liman.
Kieslowski’s “Three Colors”
Jonathan Kiefer
Just when it seemed that European cinema had become fossilized, the great Polish director created the slickest -- and loveliest -- concept album in art-film history.
Trauma lessons
Ken Lee
Young women working as medics in Jerusalem divide their lives between bloody mayhem and the rituals of adolescence.
Crippled logic
Gary Presley
Who was she to kill herself? If anyone deserved that bullet, I did -- a bitter fool in a wheelchair.
“Fight the Power”
Laura K. Warrell
Public Enemy's explosive 1989 hit single brought hip-hop to the mainstream -- and brought revolutionary anger back to pop.
What really happened at No Gun Ri?
Judith Greer
An Army major says the Associated Press' Pulitzer-winning story of American soldiers massacring Korean civilians is grossly exaggerated and dishonest.
Our shiny happy clone future
Katharine Mieszkowski
Procreation without sex, smarter babies and the right to choose the sexual orientation of your kids -- it's all good, says scientist Gregory Stock.
I’d prefer not to
Tom Bissell
My list includes Toni Morrison, Henry James, Faulkner and Beckett. Why are there some great writers we just cannot read?
Out with the old …
Carina Chocano
The TV season ends in an orgy of sex, birth, death and other
life-changing events.
Second opinions
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to Peter Kurth's essay on AIDS dissident Gary Null and Julia Gracen's take on the recovered-memory craze.
False accusations, bad boys and stripping Christians
Salon Staff
Readers respond to recent articles on molestation allegations, acceptable sexual behavior and the Christian way to handle exotic dancers.
Truth and reconciliation
Julia Gracen
Incest accusations of the recovered-memory craze tore families apart. Now one of its leaders wants to let bygones be bygones.
Willow, destroyer of worlds
Stephanie Zacharek
The most disturbing "Buffy" season ever ends with our most beloved character becoming a monster -- without losing our sympathy.
The ultimate weapon
Chris Colin
Pederastic priests, molesting fathers -- charges of sexual abuse are everywhere these days. But a growing movement of aggrieved men claim the accusations have gotten out of hand.
“Hardware Wars”: The movie, the legend, the household appliances
Bob Calhoun
An obscure Bay Area filmmaker launched an empire in 1977. No, not that one. Fluke Starbucker, Oggie Ben Doggie, Ham Salad and Princess Anne-Droid are back in a "special edition" of the original Lucas spoof.
“Dark Shadows”
Joyce Millman
Years before Buffy, Angel and Anne Rice, this ultra-cheapo Gothic soap opera entranced a generation with soulful vampires, werewolves and lost love.
What if?
A.R. Torres
I used to ask myself what I could have done to save Eddie. Now I realize: I was asking the wrong person.
“Petrified Man”
Salon Staff
Listen to Eudora Welty's exquisite reading of one of her early stories, first published in 1939 and recorded in 1956.
Age of Nvidia
Daniel Drew Turner
Keep the gamers happy, and the world is yours: How one 3-D graphics company shrugged off a recession and vanquished every foe.
A priest on his knees
Augusten Burroughs
Some of the best sex in my life has been administered by men of the cloth.
“24”: Split screen’s big comeback
Julie Talen
From Fox's "24" to Destiny's Child videos to Hollywood, the splintered aesthetic of multichannel storytelling -- once the province of the '60s avant-garde -- is suddenly everywhere.
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