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Meet the Donald
Heather Havrilesky
Like ripped sweat shirts and leg warmers, Donald Trump has never really left us. On "The Apprentice," fawning hopefuls happily enslave themselves to this icon of cheesy excess.
MetroDaddy speaks!
Mark Simpson
In an interview (with himself) the man who introduced us to the term "metrosexual" explains why it conquered the culture, bemoans his own "lesbosexual" style, and critiques "Queer Eye," Howard Dean and Schwarzenegger.
“The Human Stain”
Charles Taylor
Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman team up for a decent, sincere big-screen fable -- but the scourging fury of Philip Roth's novel is nowhere in sight.
Camille speaks!
Kerry Lauerman
Paglia returns to cast a withering eye on Clark ("what a phony!"), Kerry ("the hair!"), Madonna ("a monster"), bloggers -- and the "delusional narcissists" in the White House who led an out-of-his-depth president into a disastrous war.
Letter to a pregnant friend
Anne Lamott
What advice do I have for new parents? Assemble a pit crew, don't expect to take showers, and beware of noxious orange poop.
One vote for the new eugenics
John Sundman
Yes, genetics research can alleviate suffering. But in our consumerist, narcissistic society, it's ultimately about producing perfect people. Part 2 of "How I Decoded the Human Genome."
How I decoded the human genome
John Sundman
We are becoming the masters of our own DNA. But does that give us the right to decide that my children should never have been born?
“Party Monster”
Charles Taylor
This lazy, lurid saga starring Macaulay Culkin as '90s club kid-turned-killer Michael Alig is horrible, all right. But not for the reasons its creators think.
Dude, where’s my star?
Heather Havrilesky
As America's celebrity worship becomes increasingly indistinguishable from celebrity loathing, the unreadable Ashton Kutcher is running the best scam of all.
The moralist
Allen Barra
The exciting new translation of "The Red and the Black" blasts Stendhal into the 21st century.
“Diary”
Laura Miller
The wildly popular "Fight Club" novelist Chuck Palahniuk is back with more fodder for his army of disenfranchised Everymen, delivered with all the grace and poetry of a blunt object.
The sexual bomb thrower
Charles Taylor
It's been called pornographic, adolescent, racist and xenophobic, but Michel Houllebecq's "Platform" is a brilliant study of the sexual condition of the Western world.
To be young, single and ordained
Salon Staff
Readers respond to "So a Priest Walks Into a Bar," by Astrid Storm, and "The Hot Chick's Lament," by Amy Reiter.
Anyone but Bush
Laura McClure
Veteran activist Todd Gitlin speaks out about MoveOn, ANSWER, the Greens -- and how progressives need to emulate the self-discipline of the right to win in 2004.
Beckham, the virus
Mark Simpson
He's one of the most famous humans who has ever lived -- even though he's not that
cute, not that smart and not that great a soccer player.
The Fix
Amy Reiter, Karen Croft
Larry Flynt says he's got the goods on Amber Frey, Will Ferrell says jobs are scarcer than WMDs and Drudge says abortions cause storms. Plus: Wal-Mart says "Don't Look!"
What to read in May
Salon's critics
The latest from Margaret Atwood and Pulitzer-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, a comic portrait of male narcissism and more in the month's best fiction.
“Best Friends” by Thomas Berger
Andrew O'Hehir
Broke, overweight Sam and rich, studly Roy have been pals for 20 years, even if they don't have much in common anymore. Then the wife gets involved.
The sound of one hand slapping
Betsy Andrews
A new book explores the history of masturbation -- and why the finest minds of the 18th century suddenly freaked out about it.
Why doesn’t America love Robbie Williams?
Mark Simpson
Especially when he love-hates himself so much? EMI's $120 million wannabe-Bowie megaflop symbolizes the desolate state of 21st century British pop culture, a realm of "wankers" and second-rate imitation Americans.
Endless love
Virginia Vitzthum
The men are deeper, and the sex can be sweet as well as hot. But dating at
41 is no less exquisitely confusing than it is at 21.
Jcofnanazareth.com
Salon Staff
Online he dazzled me with his mastery of biblical history. But over dinner, he pressed me to sleep with him no fewer than a dozen times, once for each apostle.
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