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“Donnie Darko”
Andrew O'Hehir
"Rushmore" meets "American Beauty" meets "Back to the Future" in this spectral, funny, amazing first film from writer-director Richard Kelly.
Chowing down
Laura Miller
Jim Crace, author of "Being Dead" and literary fiction's most eloquent atheist, talks about his optimistic embrace of the natural world, the art of lying and why half his new book is about food poisoning.
They’re rich because they’re good
Salon Staff
Readers respond to recent articles on hating the Yankees, pet cars and Don DeLillo.
Whaddaya mean, “We don’t know about the box”?
Salon Staff
Readers deliver a dizzying spectrum of interpretations of the mysterious goings-on in David Lynch's sexy, scintillating "Mulholland Drive."
“Political Fictions” by Joan Didion
Charles Taylor
This cool, devastating look at America's empty political spectacles takes apart everything from Reagan's delusions to Clinton's impeachment.
“Now it’s really war”
Flore de Preneuf
With at least 24 Palestinians dead and several West Bank and Gaza cities under Israeli control, the fiercest military assault since 1994 shows no signs of abating.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to Charles Taylor on "Our Monica, Ourselves" and William Ian Miller on cowardice and courage.
At home with the Taliban
Asra Q. Nomani
While U.S. bombs dropped on his country, a Taliban official and his two wives welcomed me into their living room and talked of marriage, music and his memories of dining in the World Trade Center's starry restaurant.
The awful truth
Charles Taylor
"Local News," a probing five-part PBS documentary on a Charlotte, N.C., TV station, is a bleak look at a possibly unsalvageable institution.
Letters: Were we unfair to CAIR?
Salon Staff
The Council on American-Islamic Relations calls Jake Tapper's report "shoddy"; Tapper responds.
“Hearts in Atlantis”
Andrew O'Hehir
Pretty pictures wash an ominous Stephen King story with bland nostalgia. Anthony Hopkins stars as the creepy stranger.
Irony is dead! Long live irony!
David Beers
As jingoists call for a New Sincerity, we need irony -- the serious kind -- more than ever.
Hell no, they won’t go — yet
Janelle Brown, King Kaufman
Even those college students who passionately support the U.S. war on terrorism aren't sure they want to die in it.
The enemy with a thousand faces
Gary Kamiya
In Osama bin Laden, the U.S. is confronting one of the most stealthy and formidable foes in its history.
Letters on the New York attack
Salon Staff
Readers share thoughts about the World Trade Center disaster and David Horowitz and Bruce Shapiro's takes on it.
Send in the clowns
Jeff Stein
How Ringling Bros. minions tormented a freelance writer for eight years.
Bill Gates: Hero or fool?
Andrew Leonard
A Wall Street Journal reporter says in a new book that even though Gates screwed up Microsoft's future he still might "shoot the moon."
“The Forgetting” by David Shenk
Pam Rosenthal
A brilliant and quirky new book on Alzheimer's offers food for thought on the unthinkable and a new, deeper understanding of the coming epidemic.
That old black magic called self-love
Stephen Lemons
Sorcerer of the lens Pierre Molinier's self-portraiture is the stuff nightmares are made of.
Stop bad-mouthing baseball
Allen Barra
Sentimental sports columnists moan about its demise, even though the facts don't support their arguments.
Chapter 20: Thursday, Nov. 16
Alfred Alcorn
In which there's a report of "a blockbuster aphrodisiac," and Sixpack is caught doing the wild thing with Candy Dolores.
Reader feelings run high
Salon Staff
The faithful respond to dewlaps, blind dates and King Kaufman's flight to St. Louis.
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