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Imagine there’s no movie stars
Carina Chocano
David Copperfield and his hot new girlfriend do John Lennon. Plus: "Pasadena," loathsome "Married Man" and the funniest show on TV.
Deciphering suicide
Jeffrey Eugenides
The hijackers lacked the heroism of martyrs. All they had was the violence
All better now!
Amy Reiter
Heche: Sane now, crazy before; Prince Charles cheers for scantily clad dancers; Lee Majors on the dangers of bionic manhood.
“E-Book Outcast” and “The Mind of a Killer”
Salon Staff
Readers respond to M.J. Rose's story about electronic publishing and our interview with neurologist Jonathan Pincus.
The mind of a killer
Suzy Hansen
A neurologist who studies murderers' brains talks about factors that make someone kill, the difficulty of predicting violence and why most murderers can never be rehabilitated.
“Defusing the explosive child” and “A child’s first funeral”
Salon Staff
Readers respond to the war between the psychologist and the pediatrician. Plus: Angry readers say, "Kill the gerbil!"
Katharine the great
Harry Jaffe
Kay Graham's unintentional rise to glory inspired the Washington Post to a greatness the paper has never again achieved since she stepped away from it.
Letters of the week
Salon Staff
Readers call Jason D. Hill a eugenicist, provide testimonials on the joy of antidepressants and tell the parents of cyberbullies to rein in their kids.
Depression mania!
Maria Russo
Why has a cultural cottage industry sprung up around the most isolating of illnesses?
She killed her kids, but we must forgive her
Susan Kushner Resnick
Like Andrea Yates, I suffered from postpartum depression -- and it taught me just
how flimsy this thing we call sanity is.
The nightmare of recovery
Laura Miller
A powerful new book on the drug war's trenches argues that treatment is the answer -- but our current system dooms more addicts than it helps.
The Jeffords affair
Arianna Huffington
Had President Bush and Karl Rove heeded the final lesson of the Atwater School of Hardball Politics, Jeffords might still be a Republican.
We believe children aren’t the future
Lori Steele
Infertility makes us snide and courageous and sad.
Letters: Lumpen gangstas, Manilow’s roadie and good parenting
Salon Staff
Readers respond to recent articles about Snoop Dogg and Tom Waits. Plus: Robert W. Firestone on child rearing.
Dog and pony show
King Kaufman
With players straight out of central casting, San Francisco transforms the most gruesome and deadly canine attack in recent memory into a soap opera.
Empathy for the devil
Amy Benfer
In "Facing the Wind," author and journalist Julie Salamon explores the strange case of a family man who murdered his family and went on to have a second family 11 years later.
Protecting us from predators
Virginia Vitzthum
Is it fair to send sex offenders deemed "dangerous" to mental wards after they've served prison time?
Brian Wilson, card-carrying genius
Ira Robbins
After a life custom-made for cable catharsis, the force behind the Beach Boys is now being honored even for things he didn't do. Does that card ever expire?
Regrets, we have a few
George Kelly
From China to Australia, Dan Rather to Grace Slick, the whole dang world is sorry about something.
“Faith in the baby” and “Mommy’s little monster”
Salon Staff
Readers respond to two stories about the agonies and joys of raising kids who don't fit the norm.
“Facing the Wind” by Julie Salamon
Andrew O'Hehir
The author of "The Devil's Candy" tells the true story of the ideal family man who suddenly plunged into homicidal madness.
Baby loves me, baby loves me not
Theresa Pinto Sherer
Is there a biological guarantee that your child will love you? Not yet.
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