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“Off Keck Road” by Mona Simpson
Patricia Kean
Two women -- a single romantic and a have-not who takes what she can get -- love the same man in the latest from the author of "Anywhere but Here."
Papa don’t preach
Benjamin Cheever
Nobody had to tell me that my dad was drunk. Now I am a dad -- and mum.
Drink tank
Compiled by Salon staff
David Horowitz, Joe Conason and other Salon commentators weigh in on the revelation of Bush's 1976 drunken-driving arrest.
Dear Days Inn: Consider me bolted
Kenneth H. Cleaver
A motel epiphany: Common household objects work better nailed down. Another corporate missive from Kenneth H. Cleaver.
Apple gilds the lily
Daniel Drew Turner
The new Macintosh operating system may annoy both geeks and rookies.
Man, oh manifesto!
Lev Grossman
A brash band of young writers issues a screed against "dinosaur" authors and calls for a return to storytelling.
Daily dose
Cynthia Kuhn, Wilkie Wilson
I drink, smoke dope, pop Vicodin and take Prozac. Why hasn't my body given out yet?
“Touch of Evil”
Michael Sragow
The famous unbroken shot that opens Orson Welles' gutter-baroque extravaganza gets cleaned up -- and, at last, shown as Welles intended it.
Texas justice
Alan Berlow
What made timid honors student Christopher Ochoa confess to a rape and murder that he almost certainly did not commit?
He’s gotta have it
Garrison Keillor
My father's addicted to Internet porn and the whole family's upset about it. What should we do?
The politics of hate
David Horowitz
If we must talk about hate crimes, then we should also include the hate speech liberals regularly employ against Republicans and conservatives.
Put the bat down, Fox
King Kaufman
If only the network bringing us the World Series could get over Roger
Clemens' meltdown, maybe it could focus on the basics: Sound and pictures.
“Wag the Dog”
Michael Sragow
How a real-life documentary helped inspire a whip-smart political satire about a made-up war.
Mac OS X: As Windows as you wanna be
Janelle Brown
Apple's new operating system has learned a few tricks from Microsoft -- and added some neat features of its own.
It’s the stupidity, stupid
Todd Gitlin
George W. Bush's constant gaffes and mental lapses reflect the
luxurious laziness of a scion who's never had to work hard at
anything. And the media elite has graciously awarded him a
Gentleman's C.
What to read in October
Salon's critics
Hunting a Tasmanian tiger, denouncing the '60s generation, loving Graham Greene and unveiling family secrets in the best fall fiction.
The traffic jam Series
Allen Barra
Thanks to a bloated playoff format and declining TV viewership, this year's World Series doesn't have quite the resonance of those from the "Golden Age."
“The Beast God Forgot to Invent” by Jim Harrison
Jonathan Miles
Imbued with all the gravelly melancholy of a Tom Waits ballad, the new book by the author of "Legends of the Fall" presents a cast of prickly, coarse and utterly lovable antiheroes.
In the year of the (fake) snake
Adrienne Crew
If 2000 is any indicator, 21st century style is going to be all about showing skin -- and it doesn't even have to be your own.
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