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FEATURES

The First Drag Queen. Camille Paglia on how a "stone cold" Hillary Clinton taught herself how to act like a woman.

plus: Parade of the red herrings. By Andrew Ross
The Whitewater "scandal": There's no there there.

plus: The SALON Roundtable: Getting to the bottom of Whitewater.
Three scandal experts bring radically different perspectives to the story that won't go away.

The Salon Interview. Salman Rushdie
The great novelist talks about his stunning new book, "The Moor's Last Sigh," the stories that hold families together and the art of writing under sentence of death.

Sluts and Addicts. By Laura Miller
Jennifer Jason Leigh and Juliette Lewis, two of Hollywood's most talented young actresses, take the low road to acclaim.

Granta's List. By Dwight Garner
America's young novelists are holding their breaths over an honor one judge calls "a really stupid idea."

Sundance Report. By Debra Jo Immergut

Mr. Todd's Wild Ride. By Debra Jo Immergut. The surprise discovery of this year's Sundance Film Festival is director Todd Solondz, whose "Welcome to the Dollhouse" offers a remarkable vision of the hell that is seventh grade.

Plus: The Women's Hour. Forget Tarantino and the bad boys: Sundance's best offerings this year are about women.

Plus: A report from the scruffy alternative to Sundance, Slamdance.

DEPARTMENTS

Five Minute Mystery. By Dick Lochte
A spicy tale of Mardi Gras and murder from New Orleans. The first reader to correctly solve the mystery wins a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.

Lit Chat. Joyce Carol Oates
The prolific writer talks about imagining the mind of a serial killer and the fate of fiction in Hollywood

21st. By Howard Rheingold
Web advertising expert John Duhring visits Mr. Rheingold's Neighborhood.

Verbivore. By Richard Lederer
Jest for the Health of It. Our word man offers medical malapropisms and a tricky poser. The winner receives a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.

The Listress. By Amy Wallace
This issue's trivia quiz takes in celebrity suicides and great band names that almost were (the Honolulu Fruit Gum Band?). Be the first to solve it and win a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.

REVIEWS

Television.

Jane's Addiction. By Joyce Millman
In PBS's latest "Prime Suspect" mystery, Detective Superintendent Tennison's workaholism catches up to her.

The making of a half-minute masterpiece. By Joyce Millman
The title designers for "The X-Files" and other hit shows reveal the mysteries of their art.

Books.The Waning of the Cultured Capitalist. By Cheryll Aimée Barron
The intellects of yesterday's captains of industry put modern managers to shame.

Plus: Inside the book bags of Silicon Valley executives

Movies. The meaning of death. By Gary Kamiya
"Dead Man Walking" and "An Eye for an Eye" offer two vastly different takes on the desire for murderous vengence.

Plus: An interview with Sister Helen Prejean, author of "Dead Man Walking."

Music.

The Voodoo Chile Returns. By Bill Kisliuk
Two new tribute albums aim to channel Jimi Hendrix.

No Girly Mann. By Stephanie Zacharek
Singer Aimee Mann scorns twiddly hippie-girl poetry.

Noise Addict. By Charles Taylor
The sound of 10,000 kids with guitars

Multimedia. Slap Jack. By Scott Rosenberg
The CD-ROM quiz "You Don't Know Jack" serves up taunts with its trivia.

SNEAK PEEKS

Short reviews of the most intriguing new books, from Mario Vargas Llosa's mysterious political drama, "Death in the Andes," to provocative nonfiction by Jeanette Winterson and a fanciful meditation on love, death and taxidermy.

COLUMNS

The Raw and the Cooked. Douglas Cruickshank on the tulip superhighway and the flower bed ahead.

The Awful Truth. Desirous of improving her bank account, Cintra Wilson, a.k.a Frankenhooker, attempts to write for Mademoiselle magazine. Bad things happen.

COMIX

Tom Tomorrow: This Modern World.
Carol Lay: Story Minute
Keith Knight: The K Chronicles
Ruben Bolling: Tom, The Dancing Bug

TABLE TALK

We've taken Table Talk down for a few days as part of a transition to a whole new system that will retain our conversation area's content and style but will be more stable and reliable. Look for the debut of a new, improved Table Talk by February 18.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Valentines and vituperation from our far-flung readers.

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