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Getting High With a Little Help From "Friends." By Joyce Millman
The Year of the Mediaphobe. By Jon Katz
Go East, Young Man. By Andrew Lam
Austenmania. By Laura Miller
Gentleman's Agreement. By Richard Regen
Heart of Darkness. By Gary Kamiya
True Believers. Photographer Ed Kashi's work-in-progress documents the lives of the militant Jewish settlers who present a formidable obstacle to Israel's quest for peace.
How TV became the rock 'n' roll of the '90s.
Cyberporn, gangsta rap, Hollywood violence. In 1995 America's anxiety attack about the media became a national trauma. But mediaphobes, the author argues, are more concerned with images than reality.
Plus: A response: Cybersmut is the most "vile" form of pornography. By Donna Rice Hughes. Whatever happened to common decency? By James Taranto
Forget about keeping immigrants out. Smart young Americans are heading the other way.
Why, after years of neglect, Hollywood is scrambling to film Jane Austen's novels.
Walter Mosley, America's premier black mystery novelist, charges the publishing industry with "passive racism."
Anthropologist Philippe Bourgois went deeper into America's crack culture than anyone before. Too deep.
Hot Button. Disney's gay employee policy vs. the Christian Right; don't blame "Money Train;" one-and-a-half cheers for Gingrich's revolution.
Newsreal. Gates dismisses new investigation; Bonnie Raitt's guitars for girls program; a spy turns book critic; Emma Thompson bares all.
Lit Chat. Irish exile Edna O'Brien talks of war, book burning and the enduring greatness of Faulkner and Joyce.
21st. By Scott Rosenberg
Moveable Feast. By Patricia Unterman
Smoking Gun. By Tim Green
Verbivore. By Richard Lederer
Will Bill Gates get run over on the information highway?
A food lover treks into the Pyrenees to learn the ancient cheese-making secrets of the Basques. While there, she is treated to the most delicious meal of her life (recipe included).
Plus: Readers around the world nominate their favorite Chinese restaurants.
A former defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons challenges SALON readers to solve this week's Five-Minute Mystery. The first to solve the crime wins a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.
Our linguistic gourmet dishes up a particularly tasty word quiz. Be the first to serve us the correct answers and win a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.
Hypnotic Honky-Tonk. Sam Hurwitt mainlines the Cowboy Junkies and Tarnation.
The Bulletproof Brotherhood of Ska and Punk. Milo Miles celebrates one roots style that will not die.
SALON picks. Cornershop is rock 'n' roll as a second language. In "Savage Dreams," culture meets nature in Yosemite and the Nevada desert.
Ill Humor. Ian Shoales' pet peeves run wild on the infobahn. The Raw and the Cooked. Douglas Cruickshank rediscovers the flimflam, charisma and utter madness of the forgotten hipster comedian Lord Buckley. The Awful Truth. Cintra Wilson withstands the onslaught of gyrating velour robot animals in a nightmarish trip to Disney's Magic Kingdom.
Plus: Jerry Garcia pays homage to the Lord.
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