Showing results for: narcissism (page 45)
An Alan Ball postmortem
Heather Havrilesky
The "Six Feet Under" creator on the show's death, and on asking tough questions in an era of simple answers.
Self-help nation
Laura Miller
Americans spend billions of dollars a year trying to improve themselves. Is this quest for perfection a sign of perpetual optimism -- or fear of a hostile world?
Letters
Salon Staff
"If Michael Jackson is normal, there really were WMD in Iraq." Readers weigh in on the Jackson trial.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers weigh in on Cary Tennis' responses to the Buddhist with a God problem, the closeted lawyer, and the pathological liar.
Van Gogh on Prozac
Laura Miller
Treating depression doesn't quell our humanity and creativity but restores them, argues "Listening to Prozac" author Peter Kramer. So, please, let's stop making a virtue out of despair.
Roger Ebert and Mohammed Atta, partners in crime
John Gorenfeld
David Horowitz has a new project calculated to give the left apoplexy: A Web site that proclaims insidious links between latte liberals and murderous Islamists.
Letters
Salon Staff
"As a gay man, I found the column condescending, out of touch, and insulting." Salon readers react to Ayelet Waldman's latest essay.
Letters
Salon Staff
An "honest look at a real problem" or "one of the ultimate acts of consumer nihilism"? Salon readers weigh in on "Intervention."
Letters
Salon Staff
"I'm not insensitive to the agonies of mental illness, but I was tremendously disturbed by this display of self-justifying narcissism." Salon readers sound off on Ayelet Waldman's debut column.
Living out loud — online
Ayelet Waldman
When I started blogging, I discovered a compulsive need to open the tattered edges of my emotional raincoat and expose the nasty parts beneath. But at what cost to my kids?
Letters
Salon Staff
Who's out of whose league? The black woman who's being hit on by "inferior" men gets some feedback.
The exorcist
Rebecca Traister
In his new book, mega-selling self-help author M. Scott Peck asserts that demonic possession is real -- and tells the story of two exorcisms he conducted himself.
Letters
Salon Staff
"I'd like to kick Brad Pitt's ass." Emotional readers sound off on fertility, fame, feminism and the end of a celebrity marriage.
A night of expensive nurses and sticky electrodes
Cary Tennis
You said you went through a rough patch, Mr. Tennis. So out with it!
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
A week into the "now we know" era, how do we think about all those home runs by Barry Bonds? Plus: Week 14.
The mystery behind Inspector Clouseau
Heather Havrilesky
Geoffrey Rush brilliantly embodies the grandiose visions and callous self-involvement of a comic genius in HBO's "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers."
Breed all about it
Lynn Harris
The new niche magazine "Conceive" has a lot of useful information for women struggling to get pregnant. So why did I feel like hiding it on the subway?
The magic Christian
Cintra Wilson
All bow before the young British actor with more going on than any American actor, ever -- Garland, Brando, Sinatra, you name it. And he's not even a major star (yet).
Fatuous Fineman
David Talbot
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
Surprise! The Amish ditch the overalls for hair gel and sushi, Mark Cuban makes a delightful game of his narcissism, and "Big Brother 5" teaches life lessons. Plus: Chip and Kim take the bucks and "The Amazing Race" takes the Emmy.
Cool hand Lau
Lesley Chow
Will American moviegoers fall for the the slyly seductive Hong Kong star of "Infernal Affairs"?
“The Brown Bunny”
Charles Taylor
The "worst movie ever made"? Not at all. In fact, Vincent Gallo's latest film is one of the truest songs of roadside America the movies have ever produced.
Page: 45