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Never mind the hair bands, here’s a Flock of Seagulls!
Charles R. Cross
The author of a new biography of Kurt Cobain looks back at the best and worst of musical decades, the 1980s.
Deconstructing the Big Top
Laura Miller
A clueless writer proves no match for "Babette, the strongest woman alive" and her wild and woolly circus family.
“The Forgetting” by David Shenk
Pam Rosenthal
A brilliant and quirky new book on Alzheimer's offers food for thought on the unthinkable and a new, deeper understanding of the coming epidemic.
“The Grand Complication” by Allen Kurzweil
Laura Miller
The latest novel from the author of "A Case of Curiosities" follows an intrepid librarian and his sinister boss on the trail of Marie Antoinette's stolen watch.
“The Curse of the Jade Scorpion”
Charles Taylor
Woody Allen's newest movie is a pinched affair, with every joke quashed. And would Elizabeth Berkeley really fall for him?
“Sentenced to Death” and “Rock ‘Til You Drop” by John Strausbaugh
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to Laura Miller's essay about good writing vs. good novels and Paul McLeary's take on baby boomer rock.
Curse of the hippie parents
Sarah Beach
Benign neglect and noodle dancing to Ravi Shankar do not a healthy childhood make.
Nostalgia for ghosts
Greg Bottoms
Shadows in the shape of the dead walked through my bedroom door. They'd then vanish, each dark phantom becoming the next.
“Captain Corelli’s Mandolin”
Charles Taylor
It's your classic fascist meets girl, fascist loses girl, fascist gets girl back again story.
“Lost in Translation” and “The Myth of the Deadbeat Dad”
Salon Staff
Readers respond to Joe Mullich on novelized movie novels and Suzy Hansen's interview with an expert on black fathers.
Holding up the rear
Amy Standen
Where did all that start-up money go? Clue No. 1: Today's dot-com auctions are flooded with opulent Aeron chairs.
Another worthless Jimmy Carter proposal
Arianna Huffington
By failing to put teeth into his election reform recommendations, the former president is being manipulated by the current one.
Darkness visible
Jeff Stark
The new scenes in "Apocalypse Now Redux" bring a hellish clarity to the appalling vision of Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece.
Apocalypse forever
Allen Barra
A new version and 53 extra minutes of Francis Ford Coppola's often brilliant, maddeningly incoherent war horse only illuminate the film's shortcomings.
White boys don’t play
Allen Barra
Fewer and fewer young white males are playing baseball, football and basketball. Why? You tell me.
License and registration, please
Chris Colin
An artificial penis and a ruined kisser speak volumes about traffic safety.
Porn virgins
Emily Jenkins
I remember the first time I saw a dirty movie with my girlfriends, when we still burst into hysterical laughter at the word "penis."
What Chandra Levy didn’t know
Maria Russo
Today's writers see affairs between younger women and older men as ambiguous transactions that sometimes lead to tragedy.
Rent my leather elbow patches cheap!
Carina Chocano
The writer's lifestyle is on the block. Plus: The United Unabombers of Benetton.
Bushed!
Salon Staff
White House spokesman busts a move; bluejeans-clad Barbara Bush crashes Buckingham Palace lunch while her dad gets cozy with royals and Blair. The president savors charity plan win. Plus: Bush team strikes back at long-distance slap from Daschle.
Last-minute orgasm
Tracy Quan
Time flies when you're being hustled by a veteran john. Fourth in a series.
Not enough nuts?
Pegi Taylor
At the seventh annual Cracker Jack Collectors Association Convention, all that's lost is restored.
Hold your tongue!
Garrison Keillor
My otherwise wonderful boyfriend is a lousy kisser, all sticky, sloppy, needy and undisciplined. Ick!
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