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Summer reading
Salon's critics
Our critics spotlight the season's cheap (and not so cheap) thrills and single out a few bestselling stinkers (paging Jackie Collins!).
Call-girl I.D.
Tracy Quan
Using different names makes remembering johns even easier, but it can get you into trouble at a cocktail party. Third in a series.
Letters of the week
Salon Staff
Readers call Jason D. Hill a eugenicist, provide testimonials on the joy of antidepressants and tell the parents of cyberbullies to rein in their kids.
The thrill is gone
Clea MacAllister
Twenty-five years of marriage have extinguished my husband's ardor. And that breaks my heart.
Extreme porn crackdown
Susannah Breslin
The LAPD is targeting a new wave of kinky XXX films. But if porn legends like Seymore Butts have their way, "bukkake" will become a household name.
Stories of truth
Garth Nix
"Lightning Bringer" is a highly charged coming-of-age story from a collection of writing about love and sex for young people.
Selling Chandra
Joshua Micah Marshall
Behind the story of the missing intern -- and the congressman she had an affair with -- is a team of public relations experts spoon-feeding us the front page spectacle one scoop at a time.
Juicy “Fruits” is sexy, tasty and good for you
Janelle Brown
A new portfolio of Japanese street chic puts our bland fashion to shame.
A Supreme Court shocker
Alan Berlow
Sandra Day O'Connor's criticisms of the death penalty couldn't have come from a more unlikely source.
An ode to the erection
Adrian Blevins
I sing, for my daughter, of shanks and shafts and the endearing contrast between the mind's affairs and the body's undiscriminating inclinations.
Priit P
Chris Robinson
The Lenny Bruce of animation comes from Estonia, but his influence is felt all the way to "Rugrats" and "Duckman."
Give him a break
Joe Conason
Why do pundits heap scorn on writer David Brock, who lied to protect
Clarence Thomas, but give a pass to other disgraced journalists
-- like Mike Barnicle and John Stossel?
Chapter 4: Oct. 5
Alfred Alcorn
In which Worried sends another message and, by the way, mentions a couple of bodies in a bag.
On the custody circuit
Rebecca Land Soodak
My sister and I were lawless in transit, silent upon arrival.
Everything you wanted to know about “Memento”
Andy Klein
A critic dissects the most complex -- and controversial -- film of the year.
“The Princess and the Warrior”
Stephanie Zacharek
The director and the star of "Run Lola Run" return with a quieter story about bank robberies and psychiatric nurses that still pops with energy.
The congressman, the missing intern and the mother
Kerry Lauerman
As police prepare to grill Rep. Gary Condit about his relationship with Chandra Levy, are her mother's ever-changing stories simply evidence of confusion -- or a media-savvy attempt to smoke him out?
Technical difficulties
David Galef
What if the damsel in distress had a cellphone or Romeo had a pager? Modern gizmos make plotting a nightmare for writers.
End of an affair?
Damien Cave
Hackers love their TiVos, and the company is fond of its hackers. But as in any relationship, sometimes one party goes a bit too far.
“Songcatcher”
Charles Taylor
Them mountain people sure are quaint! A citified scholar condescends to rural folk in Maggie Greenwald's patronizing drama.
“The Nightmare of Recovery” and “The Morality Police”
Salon Staff
Readers respond to Laura Miller's review of "Hooked" and Charles Taylor on protecting children from images of sex and violence.
“One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich”
Stephanie Zacharek
The unapologetically experimental director Chris Marker delivers a penetrating documentary on the life of the great Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky.
“The Cold Six Thousand” by James Ellroy
Allen Barra
With his latest tale of epic conspiracy and evil, Ellroy takes crime fiction as far as it can go -- and maybe even farther.
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