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Beautiful dreamer
Michael Sragow
"End of the Affair" director Neil Jordan talks about sex, Catholicism and why "God is the greatest imaginary being of all time."
Great NFL orgies and the comely gaze of dead Beatles
Cintra Wilson
In praise of the football movie masterpiece "North Dallas Forty" (so honest it's almost French!), and looking at Liverpool's shiny animals in the days before they were demigods.
Sights for sore eyes
David Bowman
Henry Grunwald has gone blind, but is seeing more clearly than ever.
How the Demos lost the White House in Seattle
Camille Paglia
The WTO battles blew the election for Gore; McCain needs more than bad luck to qualify for the presidency; Hillary's one of the most destructive personalities in American politics; and why Madonna talks like the queen mother.
I e-shopped till I dropped
Morgan Sande
Playing Santa's little helper, I surfed for a digital camera -- and longed for an elf to take a load off my aching eyes.
Who will go nuts?
Robert Burton
Predicting mental illness is usually no better than gambling, but we keep trying.
I fought the law
Tracy Quan
First Randy's tender touch, then the lawyer's lawyerly one: Things are getting complicated.
Gentlemen, start your joysticks
Ian Christe
An X-rated tour through the early days of porn video games.
Apocalypse now
Jim Molnar
For a longtime resident, Seattle's last few tumultuous days seem to have come straight from the Book of Revelation.
The great straddler
Todd Gitlin
Free trader President Clinton veers left in Seattle. But will his finesse be enough to keep Al Gore's Democratic Party intact?
The outer limits of schizophrenia treatment
Dawn MacKeen
Researchers are treating teenagers for
schizophrenia before they are diagnosed.
Some bioethicists think that's insane.
“Would God forgive Lenin?”
Jeffrey Tayler
In a lonely tower above the mean streets of Krasnoyarsk, a wanderer encounters the fervent heart of Russia's abiding faith.
Bathtub revolutionary
Tom Bradley
An American creative writing teacher in China torches his students' work in the tub rather than hand it over to "the leaders." Was it piety, or the fantasy of a heroic reception back home?
“Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen” by Larry McMurtry
Jonathan Miles
The novelist's memoir is an elegy to vanishing breeds -- like novelists.
The randy bellboy
Susie Bright
A member of the night shift offers seduction tips to the lonely traveler.
Desperately seeking a legacy
Nina Donaghy
President Clinton has little time left to improve his standing in history. Could foreign affairs, especially a negotiated peace in the Middle East, offer him a chance for salvation?
“My Kitchen Wars” by Betty Fussell
Pete Wells
The cookbook author recounts the battles that made up her marriage.
Thanksgiving: A personal history
Jennifer New
From the mythic Midwest of my childhood to the mesmerizing Chicago of later years, this holiday has always evoked a place.
Healthy urges
Garrison Keillor
I don't want to have to beg my boyfriend for sex, but I'm too young to give up on it.
Rupert Sheldrake: The delightful crackpot
David Bowman
Put your paws together for the master of morphic resonance.
To the diaper man, with love
Carol Hall
Hamish was there for the thrills and the spills, a devoted d-man until the end.
Guarding their silence
Christian Parenti
Prisoners' rights advocates say a code of silence among prison guards led to the acquittal of the officers charged with arranging the rape of an inmate.
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