Short, tall, skinny, fat, young, old, buxom and flat: A second round of Salon readers share their own body-inspired odes.

Waiting for Fidel: An excerpt from Christopher Hunt's revealing new book about Cuba.

Manti Te'o says he was the victim of an online hoax, and I know it can happen. For a year, I believed Jamie's lies

A telenovela heroine for our times betrays her feminist fans.

My freewheeling wife wanted a tryst with a hot European woman, but I couldn't do it. Was I just being a coward?

Single white filmmaker Myles Berkowitz took a camera crew along on "20 Dates" and found Ms. Right -- not to mention a distribution deal.

Two new poetry collections, one that toys with the ghosts of the 20th century and one steeped in the pleasures of the here and now.

I loved her and tried to heal her, but she destroyed our relationship. Why?

We've been in an open relationship for years now. But some things aren't taught in the polyamory manuals

In the midst of war in Kosovo, my brother's marriage sanctifies the exchange of love and light in a flurry of bubbles and rose petals.

I've gone and fallen for my 19-year-old Nordic au pair. Should I tell her that I'm in love with her?

Is it reasonable to expect a happy love life, or in the end will it just be me, Aunt Zoey and a few too many cats?

I know it'll never work out romantically, but right now she's falling apart and maybe I can help.

Susan Sarandon, that is. And Sigourney Weaver and Jessica Lange and Debra Winger and the rest of the '80s Hollywood stars who are so much sexier than the bottle-blond Sarahs and Gwyneths and Camerons of today.

Bare-assed and freezing, one cautious Princeton sophomore learns what it means to be bad.