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Primal loss
Jayne Anne Phillips
The author of "Black Tickets" picks six powerful books on the first wounds of childhood.
The myth weavers
David Horowitz
Three leading leftist figures have been exposed this year as having lied about their backgrounds. Has the failure of their ideology forced them to fictionalize?
The return of the hidden persuaders
Ruth Shalit
Driven by a booming economy, a corporate obsession with brand-building and a feelgood philosophy, a motley crew of ex-grad students, starry-eyed admen and hypnosis gurus are probing the consumer unconscious to sell soap.
Donny Osmond: We suffer for his art
Steve Burgess
It's a neat trick when Mr. Squeaky-clean produces a flashback more terrifying than any acid reflux.
The tearful secret of Themar
Robert L. Strauss
A grandmother's tale, untold until now, opens a path of understanding and forgiveness.
My Jewish roots in Germany
Robert L. Strauss
Reluctantly and without a plan, an American uncovers his family's poignant past.
Hollywood snares
Janelle Brown
Online entertainment companies have tangled the Web with bad TV simulations. Now "Digital Babylon" portrays their failures -- but can it help prevent new ones?
Why they never told us
Kate Moses
First novelist Rahna Reiko Rizzuto talks about the silence surrounding the Japanese internment camps, being "stealth Japanese" and writing herself into two children.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Taking sides on Waco; Salon is as consumerist as the New York Times; how can I see the "Yellow Submarine"?
The things we carry
Cynthia Gorney
You have 30 minutes and two garbage bags: How do you pack for a disaster?
The art of Don E. Knuth
Mark Wallace
Computing's philosopher king argues for elegance in programming -- and a Pulitzer Prize for the best written.
Bringing ’em back alive: How anesthesiologists keep you from drifting away forever
Eleanor Stacy Parker
When you go under general anesthesia, the anesthesiologist suspends you between life and death
Goodbye, Internet poster boy
Mark Gimein
Marc Andreessen steps down from his CTO job at America Online. Is there anything left of Netscape?
Cool. Dark. Moist.
Beth Kephart
At the height of a drought, when even spiders beg for a drink, thoughts drift to the basement visits of childhood.
“Where the Roots Reach for Water” and “In the Jaws of the Black Dogs”
Greg Bottoms
Two brilliant accounts of depression suggest that at century's end memoir may be our most dynamic form.
It's not the end of the “Millennium,” after all
Howard Wen
The TV series may have been canceled by Fox, but fans are producing a new season online.
Iron daddy
Kevin Trotter
This stay-at-home dad found that waiting for a call back from La Leche League is tougher than hanging out in an office all day.
Still tempted
Garrison Keillor
She's the perfect woman: Gorgeous, intelligent and horny most of the time. Why do I still lust after other beautiful women?
Get over it, David!
Joe Conason
Where I come from, if you're going to dish it out, you've got to learn to take it, too.
Hemingway and me at the Paris Ritz
Gentry Lane
Throwing back a few martinis in memory of Liberation Day.
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