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Call me Ishmael, dammit!

Jon Bowen
New research shows we can internalize fiction.

Paris on my mind

Don George
Why Ernest Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" is great literary comfort food.

Money pit

Patti See
When a university faculty union distributes the salary list, public record becomes private hell.

Finale thoughts

Joyce Millman
The best and worst of TV's season-ending episodes.

Joseph Kramer

Jenn Shreve
A sacred prostitute and teacher of "ritual masturbation" explains the mysterious links between spirituality and doing the wild thing.

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor
Waldron's baby wasn't "nursed to death"; readers clash on condom ban.

Joan Chen: Guerrilla director

Michael Sragow
The actress talks about the filming of her directorial debut, "Xiu Xiu," under a shadow of Chinese governmental disapproval.

It takes a worried man

Roger Gathman
Stephen Dixon's brilliant new novel takes the American male beyond adolescence.

Dialogue of the deaf

David Horowitz
The Los Angeles Times Book Review is controlled by a leftist editor who relentlessly censors other voices.

The yuck of the Irish

Douglas Cruickshank
Parents of a girl killed in car crash sue a rent-a-car company, claiming Irishmen are "bound to get drunk."

The Boss in Barcelona

Michael Yessis
Bruce Springsteen rehearses -- and a global group of lucky fans gets a free concert.

Image wars

Jim Edwards
In the wake of Amadou Diallo's killing and Abner Louima's abuse, the New York Police Department is looking for a few good recruits.

Not talented enough

Ellie Forgotson
A "promising" writer finishes her first novel and faces her worst fear.

“Star Wars” widows

Cynthia Durcanin
As their mates obsess over movies, these women find their relationships crushed under the weight of the Force.

The top 10 travel books of the century

Don George
The Modern Library's nonfiction list egregiously ignores travel literature. We redress the oversight.

“Human Voices”

Sylvia Brownrigg
A superb English novelist re-creates life during wartime at the BBC.

The medieval mind of George Lucas

Jim Paul
Though he draws on our century's pop culture for his raw material, his vision arises from the Middle Ages.

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor
Horowitz gets it wrong (again); readers debate digital democracy.

“Another World”

Nan Goldberg
Pat Barker's newest novel takes up a notion of Faulkner's -- that the past isn't over. It isn't even past.

Healing heat

Debra Ollivier
Steam and massage are part of an ancient purifying ritual.

Disenchanted forest

Stephanie Zacharek
Too many weak performances -- and no, not including Calista's -- prevent Michael Hoffman's opulent "A Midsummer Night's Dream" from being more than a mildly pleasurable exercise in ornamentation.

Give war a chance

Ian Williams
American leftists could learn something from their European counterparts -- war is the only way to stop Milosevic.

Giuliani flunks school-voucher test

Samuel G. Freedman
Instead of helping the poor, he aims to dynamite public education.

Northern exposure

Steve Burgess
Farley Mowat may be a Canadian national treasure, but that hasn't stopped his critics from savaging his credibility.
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