Back issues Denis Johnson on bikers for Jesus: A SALON Special... Joyce Millman on the love between "X-Files" agents Mulder and Scully... Nicholson Baker: The SALON Interview... Richard Covington reports from the Paris Book Fair... Derrick DePledge talks to conservative strategist Grover Norquist... Millman on figure skating, TV's guiltiest pleasure... Lit Chat with Oliver Sacks... Reviews of Almodovar's "Flower of My Secret," Spike Lee's "Girl 6," the stories of Andre Dubus, the lounge-music revival and the new Beatles single...plus our regular features and columnists.
Cheryll Aimee Barron on the appeal of Deepak Chopra... David Talbot talks to Thomas Cahill about St. Patrick... Spike Gillespie crashes and burns at the South by Southwest festival... Gene Lyons on Time's empty Whitewater exclusive... Mark Hertsgaard on the downsizing of Robert Reich... Joyce Millman makes over the Oscarcast... Laura Miller interviews David Foster Wallace... Fred Branfman on the GOP's "Bite the Dust for the Budget" plan... Mary Elizabeth Williams on the Lord of the Fleas...Tim Green on NFL bigotry... Ann Lamott... Lit Chat with Alice Walker... Reviews of "Chungking Express," "Fargo," Dana Carvey's new show, Albert Murray, new recordings by Cassandra Wilson and Penelope Houston, and two new CD-ROMs on the Beats... and more.
Novelist Carolyn Chute's Maine Militia -- by Dwight Garner... John Updike: The SALON Interview... Sallie Tisdale on Duty-Free Art...."No Coloreds Need Apply," by Sheila Peabody... Scott Rosenberg on the Net's independence movement... Andrew Ross interviews E.J. Dionne on the resurgence of liberalism... Dan Shafer offers a baseball fan's lament... Lit Chat with A.S. Byatt... Howard Rheingold talks to Mark Dery... Laura Miller on "Fargo"... Gary Kamiya on an anthology of new conservative writing... Anne Lamott, murder in the Egyptology department, reviews of Iggy Pop, Lou Reed and the Spinanes... and more.
Our Love issue. Featuring the Betty Notebooks: Shocking!!! Unexpurgated!!! True-life tales of female lust and anomie... Mary Elizabeth Williams bed-tests Billboard's top ten albums... Gary Kamiya offers an appreciation of George Sanders, cad extraordinaire... Susan McCarthy visits the Museum of Contraception... Amy Wallace assembles the ultimate aphrodisiac menu... Helmut Newton talks about giving up nude photography... Anne Lamott: Word By Word -- a new "spoken-word column" by the acclaimed writer... Alexander Cockburn on Pat Buchanan... Joyce Millman looks at TV's new teenage-girl heroes... Al Franken, Stuart Smalley's creator, feels Rush Limbaugh's pain... A SALON editorial on the absurdity of the new Net censorship... Reviews of "The Love Affair as a Work of Art," "Manhood in America," and music from the world's trouble spots... Plus regular features like Listress, Verbivore, Hot Button -- and a whole bundle of new Sneak Peeks reviews, including collections by John McPhee and John Lahr.
Camille Paglia on why Hillary Clinton is her own worst enemy... Andrew Ross on Whitewater, plus a roundtable on the scandal...the Salon Interview with Salman Rushdie... Sluts and Addicts: Laura Miller on why young actresses are drawn to the gutter... Dwight Garner on Granta's list of best young American novelists... Sundance report... Lit Chat with Joyce Carol Oates... Reviews of "Prime Suspect," "Dead Man Walking," Anthony Sampson's book on the decline of the cultured capitalist, Hendrix, Aimee Mann, Noise Addict and "You Don't Know Jack"... Douglas Cruickshank, Cintra Wilson, the Five Minute Mystery, Mr. Rheingold's Neighborhood, Verbivore, the Listress and a passel of Sneak Peeks.
Burning Down the House: Gary Kamiya looks at Newt Gingrich -- and a roundtable on the future of the Republican revolution... Laura Miller on why vampires are so popular... the SALON interview with Jamaica Kincaid... Mark Hertsgaard on why big business is afraid of global warming... Joyce Millman looks at Carly Simon's staying power ... Steve Chapple eats crocodile tail by the banks of the Zambezi... Reviews of "12 Monkeys," "Murder One," Tori Amos and Eric Dolphy... Sneak Peeks, columns, departments and comics.
Digital wizard vs. demon hacker: Scott Rosenberg on three books' duel to define the Mitnick case... SALON interview with Helen Mirren... Joyce Millman on Seinfeld... Joan Walsh on diversity training... James Marcus on Martin Scorsese's music... Adam Block attacks Bruce Springsteen's "Cabernet Grapes of Wrath" tour... and more features, reviews and departments.
Polly Shulman on why kids want morality in their books... Gary Kamiya on A.N. Wilson's life of the "real" Jesus... SALON interview with Oliver Stone ...Bosnia roundtable... New Irish writers... Kathy Dobie on a Death Row rebirth... The nightmare of multimedia retailing... Jon Katz's Web mystery... and our regular features.
Joyce Millman on how TV became the rock 'n' roll of the '90s... Jon Katz on the new mediaphobia... Gary Kamiya on a scholar lost in the crack wasteland... Scott Rosenberg on Bill Gates' road to nowhere... Tim Green's NFL mystery... and much more.
Amy Tan talks about her inspirations and demons... Joyce Millman on Beatles graverobbing... Camille Paglia trash-talks William Bennett... Salon roundtable on race... and more.
