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Secret grief
Terry Greene Sterling
Deborah Laake went from arrogance to talk shows to misery after publishing her indictment of Mormon practices, "Secret Ceremonies." And then she killed herself.
Sexual moderates
Emily Jenkins
The American media makes us think we are strange if we aren't thinking about sex all the time.
Bush caught in concealed-guns crossfire
Alicia Montgomery
Candidates draw debate battle lines, Nader plans a sneak attack, polls keep Bush and Gore on the defensive and the WWF enlists young voters.
Missives to corporate America
Kenneth Cleaver
A consumer correspondent challenges SmithKline Beecham to start a Paxil softball league, wants Target-sponsored sunsets and confesses a desire for Gap mannequins.
The one and only
Garrison Keillor
He's my true love, but he's married. Is there just one perfect person in the world for everyone?
Love’s labors flossed
Rebecca Segall
Inventor Sean Dix wanted to revolutionize the way we get rid of plaque. Now he's in jail for threatening Ted Turner's life.
Out on a limb
Randy Dotinga
A New York psychologist searches for a hospital to allow his healthy right leg to be cut off after a Scottish facility refuses.
What to read
Salon's critics
From an icy thriller to a humid Southern novel, late-summer fiction that knocked our flip-flops off.
Picking parents for Joshua
Beth Broeker
His biological mom and dad nearly killed him. Now I must find the perfect people to give him a fresh start.
Citizen Killer?
Jeff Chorney
A friend of the Black Dahlia fingers a surprising suspect in the legendary unsolved murder: Orson Welles.
Sex, capitalism and antidepressants
Mary Gaitskill, Rick Moody
Two writers wrestle with the impossibility of literature in a society that's afraid of the dark.
A recipe for disaster
Arthur Allen
While nobody knows the origin of autism, many researchers worry that linking it to childhood vaccines could be a very dangerous theory.
Messing with totems and taboos
Rob Breznsy
Your horoscope for this week. Do the planets control our fates? Hell, no!
The heart of the matter
Leah Kohlenberg
Is Dick Cheney healthy enough to endure the rigors of a vice presidential campaign?
Survival of the dullest
Carina Chocano
The future is here, and instead of 15 minutes of fame everyone's going to get several episodes' worth. Can anonymity survive "Survivor"?
In sickness and in hell
Susan McCarthy
Before you marry, find out if the two of you are compatible when you are ill. It could save you years of anguish.
Britain’s first software billionaire
Wendy M. Grossman
At Autonomy, Mike Lynch creates programs that act like people do, analyzing words and extracting ideas.
One nation, under the weather
Lauren Slater
Stung by a pan in the New York Times, an "illness memoirist" defends her art.
“Mockingbird Years” and “The Last Good Freudian”
Laura Miller
Two memoirists look back on their many years of psychotherapy -- and what they see ain't pretty.
George Segal
Daryl Lindsey
His sculpture depicted people doing ordinary things, but his work showing gays and lesbians ignited controversy -- and made an inestimable contribution to American culture.
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