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FEATURES
Twilight of the Panther By Arthur Allen
A black militant's exile in Castro's Cuba
The SALON Interview: Fiona Shaw By Richard Covington
Fiona Shaw, acclaimed as "the next Vanessa Redgrave," discusses her adventures in a most dangerous profession.
Montana Standoff: Coddling the Kooks? By Jonathan Broder
Three experts debate whether the Federal government is going too easy on the resurgent militia movement.
Not Just the Color of Our Skin By Hugh Pearson
It's time for blacks to acknowledge that their experience of oppression does not set them apart from the rest of the human race, argues the author of "Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America."
"Champagne for Everyone!" By Scott Rosenberg
"Rumpole" creator John Mortimer on his character's enduring appeal, writer's wives and why politicians are never the right people to talk about family values.
Ballads and Bones By Scott Rosenberg
An interview with Richard Thompson, musician's musician, moody songwriter and rock's crown prince of irony
Where Weird and Pop Converge By Cynthia Joyce
An e-mail duet with the unpredictable band Cracker's sardonic leader, David Lowery
A Pregnant Pause By James Marcus
How a couple survived seven months of bed rest -- with the aid of "All My Children"
DEPARTMENTS
Word By Word
Anne Lamott's Online Diary
Hot Button: The Great Frame-Up By Andrew Ross
There is a Whitewater scandal. It involves journalistic malfeasance, political gamesmanship and a gross abuse of judicial power.
The Five-Minute Mystery: Booked For Murder By Dick Lochte
When the literary world's outrageous enfant terrible is found murdered in New Orleans, there's only one sleuth who can solve the crime: J.J. Legendre. The first reader to figure out who the killer is wins a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books &Music.
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Lit Chat: Grace Paley
The revered 73-year-old short story writer and bard of Jewish New York talks with The Threepenny Review's Wendy Lesser about the importance of writing with both ears.
Mr. Rheingold's Neighborhood Doug Schuler: New Community Networks
Can technology build up what technology tore apart -- namely, human communities? Doug Schuler thinks it can -- if we work hard enough.
Verbivore. By Richard Lederer
Hop up to part two of our language maven's kangaroo words contest. The winner receives a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.
The Listress. By Amy Wallace
Poobah's Pastimes. Did Nixon collect mushrooms for fun (and were they psychedelic)? The first person to successfully match wits with The Listress wins a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.
REVIEWS
Movies
Dog of the Week: "Primal Fear" By Andrew Ross
Two loud bow-wows for Gregory Hoblit's dumb courtroom thriller, which should have gone directly to video.
Books
Tome Deaf By Gary Kamiya
The New York Public Library's "Books of the Century" is a rigged literary parlor game -- but it's still fun to play.
Wearing Thin By Stephanie Zacharek
The feminist theories about brainwashed, anorexic women expounded in "Am I Thin Enough Yet?" don't stand up to scrutiny.
Music
A Big Bite of the Big Easy By Tony Scherman
A new four-CD box, "Crescent City Soul," digs deeply into the hot, soulful world of New Orleans r&b.
Pop Renaissance By Charles Taylor
The Cardigans' American debut, "Life," evokes the spark and fantasy of pop at its best.
SNEAK PEEKS
Short reviews of the most intriguing new books, including the new novel by Louise Erdrich, a surreal fable by the late Nobel finalist Kobo Abe, Nicholson Baker's microscopic new collection of essays and one of the best books from longtime New Yorker contributor Joseph Mitchell.
COLUMNS
Ill Humor. People Get Ready
By Ian Shoales. Angrily responding to weird claims that the decline in bowling is a measure of America's spiritual emptiness (or something), our man seizes his ball and monogrammed shirt and strides forth to do battle.
The Awful Truth.Laugh, Laugh, I Thought I'd Die
By Cintra Wilson. A brief trip to an "alternative" comedy club convinces our heroine that certain psyches should never disrobe in public.
COMIX
Tom Tomorrow: This Modern World.
Carol Lay: Story Minute
Keith Knight: The K Chronicles
Ruben Bolling: Tom, The Dancing Bug
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