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Minor saints
Janis Cooke Newman
My grandmother's small gestures of love live on between me and my son.
The Argentine art of flirting
Kaitlin Quistgaard
A young American learns to stop resisting and love the piropo.
Passion and possibility
Don George
Laurie Gough's "Kite Strings of the Southern Cross" poignantly depicts the pleasures and perils of wanderlust.
Sharps & Flats
Salon Staff
Reviews of new releases from the Kinks, Wynton Marsalis, the Mayflies USA and Robert Cray.
Everything she had
Virginia Vitzthum
Against the backdrop of an AIDS conference, one public health expert decides to accept a dangerous gift of love.
Words in your ear
Janelle Brown
Audible's digital Walkman delivers on-demand spoken-word programming -- but only in limited doses.
The disturbing case of “Ben H.,” the messianic marksman
Justin Frank
Never himself, even in childhood, and armed with a high power delusional system, acting was a perfect profession for this patient.
Coming out shooting
Jake Tapper
In the wake of the Littleton massacre, the NRA holds its convention in Denver, less than 20 miles away from Columbine High School.
The old men and the C-cups
Erin J. Aubry
Hollywood's mania for depicting geezers with improbably young babes reflects the desperation of a generation that came of age in the youth-obsessed '60s.
The Modern Library chooses the century's top 100 nonfiction books
Craig Offman
The Modern Library chooses the century's top 100 nonfiction books.
Mod love
Andrew Leonard
With their ears, their computers and a little code, "mod trackers" build their own worlds of sound.
Poison pen pals
Craig Offman
Salon Books interviews a serial killer groupie who corresponded with Gacy, Ramirez, Manson and Dahmer.
“Carpet” and other tales
Barry Yourgrau
A magic carpet in a hotel room, a safari gone astray, a mysterious mission, a map mishap -- four excerpts take unexpected twists.
Sauce biarnaise syndrome
Susan McCarthy
Learned taste aversion may be nature's way of keeping us away from deadly foods.
Sex so awesome it scares me
Garrison Keillor
He took me to sexual heights I didn't know existed, but after six years he still won't commit.
Crime is in the air
Elliott Neal Hester
Sometimes even flight attendants can't believe the things that happen onboard.
Ways to disappear
Adam Bluestein
Three new friends on the Thailand-Burma border teach a traveler about gaining and losing.
“Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick”
Andrew Roe
A first novelist sends her heroine down the rabbit hole of L.A., city of cow-killing Satanists and suicidal socialites.
“Country of Exiles”
Chris Lehmann
In a nation stripped of allegiance to place, everybody knows this is nowhere.
My cancer time bomb
Christopher Scanlan
A child smoker who quit now fears that the first puff was the worst.
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