ISSUE 49: Jan. 27-31, 1997
Charles Taylor on how "Star Wars" ruined American movies ... Tom McNichol
on Microsoft's virtual philanthropy ... Camille Paglia's advice column ...
Jon Carroll's Bestseller Hell looks at "Chicken Soup for the Soul" ...
James Carville on Clinton's new chief economic adviser ... Cintra Wilson at
the inaugural ... Scott Rosenberg on "Fierce Creatures" ... Gary Kamiya on
"Prefontaine" ... Jennie Yabroff on "Gridlock'd" ... Patric Kuh's Burnt-Out
Cook, Bob Blumer's Surreal Gourmet, Unzipped and Verbivore.
ISSUE 48: Jan. 20-24, 1997
Smashing the state: Gary Kamiya on libertarianism ... plus BrainWave: a collaboration among Salon, the Site, Electric Minds and Feed ... Cintra Wilson on the inauguration ... The Salon Interview with Margaret Atwood ... Scott Rosenberg on Branagh's "Hamlet" ... Charles Taylor on "Everyone Says I Love You" ... Joyce Millman on the return of "Absolutely Fabulous" ... Anne Lamott's Houston epiphany ... Ian Shoales' Ill Humor ... Surreal Gourmet, Unzipped and the Listress.
ISSUE 47: Jan. 13-17, 1997
New media vs. old: David Futrelle on how interactivity might not save journalism ... Laura Miller: I survived a feminist co-op ... Camille Paglia on transvestite pharaohs ... Douglas Cruikshank visits the worst bed and breakfast on earth ... Carville previews the inauguration ... Joyce Millman on "King of the Hill" ... Gary Kamiya on "Albino Alligator" ... Cintra Wilson on Hollywood's "wailing uterus" ... Patric Kuh on cooking from the gut ... Surreal Gourmet from Bob Blumer, Courtney Weaver's Unzipped and the Verbivore.
ISSUE 46: January 6-10, 1997
Fatlash: Laura Miller on the new diet-industry books ... Gordon Weiss with Bosnian war criminals ... Jonathan Lethem on Shirley Jackson ... David Talbot talks with Eddy Harris ... Richard Covington on French bestsellers ... Nell Bernstein on "Citizen Ruth" ... Anne Lamott flies home ... Ian Shoales on Larry Flynt and Bugs Bunny ... Surreal Gourmet, Unzipped and the Listress.
ISSUE 45: Dec. 23, 1996 - Jan. 6, 1997
Holiday double issue: Mary Elizabeth Williams reviews the year on the Web ... Salon Interview with Oliver Sacks ... Denis Johnson's tale of Boy Scouts in the Philippines ... Joyce Millman's TV top ten for 1996 ... "Working and Not Working": Fiction by Jim Paul ... Rob Spillman on Mike Mcintyre's road trip across America ... Reviews of "Larry Flynt," "Evita," "Beavis," and "Ghosts of Mississippi" ... Carville on his "Flynt" role ... Cintra Wilson tickles Elmo till he bleeds ... Ian Shoales on abject adjectives ... Patric Kuh on the greatest meal of his career ... Surreal Gourmet, Unzipped and Verbivore.
ISSUE 44: December 16-20, 1996
Music '96: Critics' top ten lists, plus appreciations of Beck, Ella Fitzgerald and the Juilliard String Quartet ... Dan Shafer explains why you should put that computer purchase on hold ... Salon Interview with Tobias Wolff ... Katherine Whittemore on Christmas books ... Josh Kornbluth tries to talk to Jonathan Richman ... Scott Rosenberg on "Mars Attacks" ... Stephanie Zacharek on "One Fine Day" ... Jennie Yabroff talks with "Shine" director Scott Hicks ... Cintra Wilson on our parents' marriages ... Anne Lamott on bad hair ... Burnt-out Cook Patrick Kuh on a kitchen hell night ... Bob Blumer's Surreal Gourmet, Courtney Weaver's Unzipped and the Listress.
ISSUE 43: December 9-13, 1996
The first annual Salon Book Awards ... Salon Interview with James Ellroy ... Kaitlin Quistgaard on the mystery of Evita ... Joyce Millman on the implosion of "Roseanne" ... Laura Miller on "Ridicule" ... Stephanie Zacharek on Costello's live set ... Carville vows not to give up his crusade against Starr ... Shoales answers mail ... Unzipped, Verbivore and the Surreal Gourmet.
ISSUE 42: December 2-6, 1996
Beasts: Laura Miller interviews the hunter of the giant squid; Sally Eckhoff on an exotic equestrial show; Milo Miles reviews bug books and movies ... Dan Shafer on ActiveX vs. Java ... Tom Tomorrow vs. Scott Adams ... D.T. Max on manhood and madness at Harvard ... Lamott on God's In-Box ... Cintra Wilson on youth brainwashing ... Patric Kuh on the Mediterannean-restaurant fad ... Surreal Gourmet, Unzipped and the Listress.
ISSUE 41: November 25-29, 1996
Crazy colors: Dwight Garner on three art-world books ... D.J. Waldie stays home alone for the holidays ... Charles Taylor defends supermodels ... Joyce Millman on Amy Rigby's "Diary of a Mod Housewife" ... Jennie Yabroff on "Hype" ... Carville declares war on Kenneth Starr ... Ian Shoales on Hollywood holiday icons ... The Surreal Gourmet's Thanksgiving bird ... Unzipped: when dad marries a woman your age ... and Verbivore.
ISSUE 40: November 18-22, 1996
Feastiality: John Thorne on Hamburger heaven... Joyce Millman gets hooked on Harry and David... The Salon Interview with Ruth Reichl... Premieres of Patric Kuh's column Slash, Burn, Filet and Bob Blumer's Surreal Gourmet... Table Talk's first anniversary... Scott Rosenberg on geek yuks... Andrew Ross handicaps Clintongate... Gary Kamiya on "The English Patient," Milo Miles on "Space Jam," and Jennie Yabroff tals with the makes of "Paradise Lost"... Lamott on the real Rules, Cintra Wilson on marriage, Unzipped on national cliches and Listress on lawyers.
ISSUE 39: November 11-15, 1996
Cintra Wilson on the canonization of Hunter S. Thompson... Carol Lloyd discovers a sob-sister cult at her self-defense class... John le Carre responds to readers' questions... The Salon Interview with John Edgar Wideman... Mark Dery talks with Stuart Ewen, author of "PR!"... Joyce Millman on "Larry Sanders" and "Mr. Show"... Donnell Alexander interviews "Set It Off" director Gary Gray... Charles Taylor on "Freeway"... Carville on Clinton and the press... Ian Shoales on "Romeo and Juliet" lite... Verbivore and Unzipped.
ISSUE 38: November 4-8, 1996
The Web is dead? Long live the Web: Scott Rosenberg looks behind the headlines to survey the state of the medium... The Salon Interview: Laura Esquivel... Gary Kamiya on "The Tao of Ali"... Shoales jobhunts for Liddy Dole... Stephanie Zacharek on Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo and Juliet"... Renee Monrose talks with Ismail Merchant... Carville on Dole's character problem... Lamott on the mirror of age... Anne Rice's final column, plus the winners of the write-alike contest... Cintra Wilson celebrates Halloween, Unzipped ponders green-card marriages and the Listress quizzes on support groups... plus the debut of our Sharps & Flats daily music reviews.
ISSUE 37: October 28 - November 1, 1996
Reefer madness: Gary Kamiya and Andrew Ross face off on the marijuana issue ... Does nature make men brutes and women sluts? Laura Miller reviews two books ... The Salon Interview: Joan Didion ... Joyce Millman on Pee-wee's big comeback ... Blood in the suds: a Five-Minute Mystery by Dick Lochte ... Mark Athitakis on Wilco ... Shoales on Philip Roth, creativity and obnoxiousness; Carville on Dole's faltering advance team; Courtney Weaver's Unzipped on traveling women; and Richard Lederer's Verbivore on colloquialisms.
ISSUE 36: October 21-October 25, 1996
Lady and the Tramp: Dwight Garner talks with author David Brock about "The Seduction of Hillary Clinton"
... The Salon Interview with John Le Carré ... Scott Rosenberg on Frank Sulloway's birth-order theories ... Joyce Millman on "3rd Rock from the Sun" ... Lit Chat with Mona Simpson... Gavin McNett on Counting Crows... Anne Lamott on an un-neighborly neighbor, James Carville on polls, Anne Rice in San Francisco, Cintra Wilson on a chubby transvestite comedian, Courtney Weaver's Unzipped on phone sex, and the Listress.
ISSUE 35: October 14-October 18, 1996
Teacher's Pets: A roundtable on students' affairs with professors... The Salon Interview: William Gibson... Joyce Millman on "Millennium" and "Dark Skies"... Fred Branfman on Clinton's second term... Lit Chat with Nick Hornby... Cynthia Joyce talks with Michelle Shocked... Michael Ross on Curtis Mayfield... James Carville, Anne Rice, Ian Shoales, Verbivore and Unzipped.
ISSUE 34: September 30-October 11, 1996
Personal Best -- noted novelists and Salon critics remember the books that changed their lives: Amy Tan on "Lolita," Joyce Carol Oates on "Alice in Wonderland," Michael Chabon on "The Swimmer," Jeffrey Eugenides on "The Portrait of a Lady," Mary Gaitskill on "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," Reynolds Price on "A Flag for Sunrise," John Le Carre on "Carry on, Jeeves," Denis Johnson on "Fat City," Cintra Wilson on "A Prayer for Owen Meaney," Ian Shoales on "The Circus of Dr. Lao," Mary Elizabeth Williams on "Lolita," Scott Rosenberg on "The Lord of the Rings," Laura Miller on "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe," Dwight Garner on "On the Road," Cynthia Joyce on "Mating," Joyce Millman on "Silence of the Lambs," Joan Smith on "The Sound and the Fury," Mignon Khargie on "Cider with Rosie," Gary Kamiya on "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Andrew Ross on "The Castle"... James Carville on the presidential debates... Anne Rice on Bill Clinton's pretty face... Harry Shearer on the Contra/coke connection... Stephanie Zacharek on Sheryl Crow and Dave Fenton on Nirvana... Listress and Unzipped.
ISSUE 33: September 23-27, 1996
Sistahood is lucrative: Dwight Garner on Terry McMillan and the new breed of black, middle-class women novelists. Plus an interview with McMillan... Josh Kornbluth's "The Mathematics of Change"... The Salon Interview with Stephen Jay Gould... Joyce Millman on "Relativity"... Stephanie Zacharek on "First Wives Club"... Milo Miles on Sebadoh and Scrawl, and Sam Hurwitt on They Might Be Giants... James Carville: It's all over for Dole... Anne Rice on God, fame, passion and morality... Cintra Wilson on a New York celeb... Anne Lamott, paragliding... Harry Shearer on Dole's pity strategy... Verbivore and Unzipped.
ISSUE 32: September 16-20, 1996
Laura Miller on chronicles of growing up suburban... The Salon Interview with Mike Leigh... Carol Lloyd on New Age prostitutes... Charles Taylor on the cappuccino conspiracy of art films... Joyce Millman on fall TV... Lit Chat with Fenton Johnson... James Carville on Dole's economy.... Harry Shearer misses the Cold War... Anne Rice on spam and spirit in the heartland... Milo Miles on Pere Ubu and Sam Hurwitt on Jonathan Richman... Ian Shoales on Clinton-hating in trailer-park land... Courtney Weaver's Unzipped and the Listress.
ISSUE 31: September 9-13, 1996
Gary Kamiya on PBS' epic series, "The West"... Milo Miles on two new Custer books... The Salon Interview with Mark Morris... Premiere of Harry Shearer's Fifth Column... Scott Rosenberg on "Our Secret Century"... Stephanie Zacharek on REM's "New Adventures in Hi-Fi"... Joshua Klein on Suzanne Vega... Charles Taylor on "Fly Away Home"... Anne Rice ponders Midwesterners' taste in porn, James Carville offers the lowdown on Dick Morris, Anne Lamott tells the ugly truth about writer's conferences, Cintra Wilson explains why she doesn't like Ike (Turner), Courtney Weaver's Unzipped and Richard Lederer's Verbivore.
ISSUE 30: September 3-6, 1996
Scott Baldinger recalls the golden age of gay sex... The Salon Interview with Paul Theroux... Gary Kamiya on why football can't get no respect... David Brake on the U.S. Wide Web... Richard Covington on the Edinburgh Festival... Laura Miller on "Rendezvous in Paris"... Gavin McNett on Billy Bragg and Lisa Crovo on the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame concert... Carville on the Democratic Convention, Anne Rice disciplines an errant reader, Ian Shoales proposes some constitutional amendments, Courtnet Weaver finds some relationships less filling, and the Listress asks about love.
ISSUE 29: August 26-30, 1996
Why we're not amused: Mary Elizabeth Williams on the un-funniness of movie comedy today... The Salon Interview with Frederick Wiseman, and Gary Kamiya on Wiseman's new "Comedie Francaise" documentary... Dave Eggers on single-dad books... Carina Chocano on the Lounge Generation... Joyce Millman on public TV's "Book of Virtues" cartoon... Laura Miller on "Girls Town" and "Foxfire"... David Fenton on Pearl Jam and Cynthia Joyce on "Exile on Classical Street"... Five-Minute Mystery by Dick Lochte...James Carville, Anne Rice, Anne Lamott, Cintra Wilson and Courtney Weaver.
ISSUE 28: August 19-August 23, 1996
James Carville gets booted from the Republican Convention... Laura Miller on highbrow sleaze from the New York literati... Cynthia Joyce on "She's the One": the movie, director Ed Burns and the soundtrack... Scott Rosenberg on a new history of the Net's early days... Julia Barton on the strange world of Iowa's small-town festivals... Glen Helfand on "Basquiat"... Dwight Garner on George Jones and Mark Athitakis on Sam Phillips... A Murder of Import: a new Five-Minute Mystery by Dick Lochte.... Ian Shoales, Anne Rice's road diary, Courtney Weaver's Unzipped and the Listress.
ISSUE 27: August 5-August 16, 1996
A special double issue on death: Gary Kamiya introduces the issue; The Salon Interview with Irvin Yalom; Susie Bright on the artful suicide of Sally Binford; Alexander Cockburn bids farewell to Jessica Mitford; Camille Paglia on the Italian way of death; Scott Rosenberg tours Web graveyards; Sophie Majeskie on the Eastern way of death; Fred Branfman chooses death; My last year is my best by Jackie McEntee; and Imaginary Endings: four artists paint the final exit...columns by Anne Rice and James Carville...Cintra Wilson on girl gymnasts and Anne Lamott visits AOL hell...Charley Taylor reviews the trip-hop of Tricky and Gavin McNett on Robyn Hitchcock...Unzipped and Verbivore.
ISSUE 26: July 29-August 2, 1996
Lust in the Dust Jackets: Gary Kamiya on Maurice Girodias and the Olympia Press; Cynthia Joyce talks to Anais Nin biographer Deirdre Bair; Dwight Garner interviews America's foremost erotica publisher... James Carville's "Swamp Fever"... Anne Rice kicks off her "Servant of the Bones" diary... Carol Lloyd on "straight fairies"... Laura Miller on John Sayles -- virtue's hack... Joyce Millman's TV FAQs: Why "Xena" rules... Lisa Crovo among the X-philes... Gavin McNett on the Jam, and Charles Taylor on Marshall Crenshaw... Cintra Wilson on girl gymnasts... Ian Shoales contemplates an image change... Unzipped and the Listress...
ISSUE 25: July 22-26, 1996
Dwight Garner on the golden age of plagiarism... The Salon Interview with Merce Cunningham... Scott Rosenberg talks to Clement Mok about the future of the Web... Wagner James Au interviews Hong Kong action star Michelle Yeoh... Laura Miller on "The Frighteners"... James Marcus on Prince and Michael Ross on Me'Shell Ndegeocello... Anne Lamott: when your editor becomes your roommate... Cintra Wilson goes south of the border... Courtney Weaver's Unzipped and Verbivore...
ISSUE 24: July 15-19, 1996
Untying Dole's tongue --how a novelist gave Monotone Bob the gift of speech: the Salon Interview with Mark Helprin... Joyce Millman on Rosie O'Donnell... Nancy Friday talks about the unfairness of beauty... White Scots on skag: Charles Taylor on "Trainspotting," and an interview with director Danny Boyle... Laura Miller on "Celestial Clockwork"... Cynthia Joyce on location with director Steven Okazaki... Classics for Moderns: Tim Riley picks 10 classical recordings... The afterlife of the Dead: Milo Miles on the Furthur Festival... Ian Shoales gets in touch with his inner Philbin, the Listress finds odd couples, and Courtney Weaver searches for the high road through post-break-up lows...
ISSUE 23: July 8-12, 1996
O.J.'s Long Goodbye: Joyce Millman on Simpson's retrial by the media... The Salon Interview with Richard Ford... Julie Felner on the lesbian girls next door... Cynthia Durcanin on the retirement of France's "chef of the century"... Scott Rosenberg on "Independence Day"... Reviews of Neil Young and De LA Soul...Anne Lamott on a decade of sobriety... Cintra Wilson's Golden Panties Awards... Courtney Weaver's Unzipped and Richard Lederer's Verbivore.
ISSUE 22: July 1-5, 1996
The Royal Scribe: Christopher Hitchens on Bob Woodward's pact with power... Scott Rosenberg on "The End of Science"... The Salon Interview with Sharon Olds... Charlie Varon on "outsourcing" the theater... Reviews of Patti Smith, Charles Mingus and Jimmie Dale Gilmore... Ian Shoales on identity games... Courtney Weaver's "Unzipped" tries a threesome... and
Amy Wallace's Listress.
ISSUE 21: June 24-28, 1996
Survival of the Rudest: Mary Elizabeth Williams on the Net's nasty tendencies... The Salon Interview with Calvin Trillin... Carol Lloyd on a honeymoon in Mongolia... Andrew Leonard spies on Goldman Sachs bankers going bonkers over Wired's IPO... Anne Lamott tells the Class of '96 that B+ is just fine... Cintra Wilson goes looking for art at a museum and finds it in the subway... Richard Lederer's Verbivore and Courtney Weaver's Unzipped... Laura Miller on "Butterfly Kiss" and Mary Elizabeth Williams on "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"... Sam Hurwitt on Lyle Lovett and Milo Miles on Charlie Hunter.
ISSUE 20: June 17-21, 1996
Personal Best -- Salon critics pick the 14 albums that rocked their worlds: "Rubber Soul" (the Beatles), "London Calling" (the Clash), "This Year's Model" (Elvis Costello), "Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band," "Axis: Bold as Love" (Jimi Hendrix), "Seven Nights to Rock" (Moon Mullican), "Exile in Guyville" (Liz Phair), "1999" (Prince), "Seductive Reasoning" (Maggie and Terre Roche), "Some Girls" (the Rolling Stones), "The Capitol Years" (Frank Sinatra), "Darkness on the Edge of Town" (Bruce Springsteen), "Please Panic" (The Vulgar Boatmen), and "Innervisions" (Stevie Wonder)... The Salon Interview with A.S. Byatt... Stephanie Zacharek on Jim Carrey's rubbery appeal... Ian Shoales on careers of yesterday for people of tomorrow... and Courtney Weaver's "Unzipped."
ISSUE 19: June 10-14, 1996
Laura Miller on "incest lit": how the current obsession with family psychodrama has kept American novelists from leaving the house... The Salon Interview with Pulizter-Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner... Joe Gioia on Michael Jordan and Dennis Rodman... Gary Kamiya on "Taxi Wisdom" -- hack philosophy... Joyce Millman on Linda Ronstadt's rock lullabies and David Fenton on Beck....and new columns from Anne Lamott, Cintra Wilson and Courtney Weaver.
ISSUE 18: June 3-7, 1996
Scott Rosenberg interviews "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams, sharp-penned
chronicler of the cubicle age...Joyce Millman takes a jaundiced look at the
extremely irritating "extreme sports" phenomenon...In "Unzipped," her new
column of dispatches from the romantic no-man's-land, Courtney Weaver asks
an interactive question: should an amorous lady offer a gentleman her
card?...Jeff Stein reports on redneck gays, beer-swilling good ol' boys who
live double lives...the Salon interview with former California governor
Jerry Brown...new music from Ani DiFranco...Amy Wallace's Listress...and
Ian Shoales on putting the eeeee back in Valujet.
ISSUE 17: May 27-31, 1996
Todd Gitlin on why boomers hate Bill Clinton -- and themselves... Charles Taylor on Brian De Palma's Hollywood mission... the Salon Interview with Jay McInerney... Cynthia Joyce on Dalai-Palooza, the benefit concert of the '90s, with a Yoko Ono interview... Mary Elizabeth Williams on getting married by Elvis in Vegas... Pete Seeger review... Anne Lamott on Madonna as mother, Ian Shoales on Timothy Leary's last trip, and Cintra Wilson on a friend's departure.
ISSUE 16: May 20-24, 1996
Joyce Millman on TV's season-closing "blue period"... Scott Rosenberg explores whether the new Web programming language Java amounts to a hill of beans... The Salon interview with Martin Cruz Smith... Fred Branfman outlines four ways that politics rots the soul... Laura Miller reviews "Welcome to the Dollhouse" and "I Shot Andy Warhol"... Lisa Crovo talks to Ray Davies of the Kinks... New music from Bill Frisell and George Michael... and Ian Shoales on "Kid Noir."
ISSUE 15: May 13-17, 1996
The Left's family values lite: Scott Rosenberg on Michael Lerner's "politics of meaning"... The Salon Interview with Julian Barnes... Joyce Millman on Elvis Costello's "All This Useless Beauty"... Pableaux Johnson searches for the perfect sausage in Texas... Milo Miles on the Fugees, Busta Rhymes and Positive Black Soul... Cintra Wilson sacks Iceland and Mary Elizabeth Williams reviews "Original Gangstas."
ISSUE 14: May 6-10, 1996
Laura Miller on Robert Bly's "The Sibling Society"...The Salon Interview with Louise Erdrich... Joyce Millman on the Weather Channel... Scott Rosenberg talks with Graham Swift about his new "Last Orders"... Mary Elizabeth Williams ballroom-dances in Pilsen... Charles Taylor on the Cranberries, Cynthia Joyce interviews Luna's Dean Wareham, and Ian Shoales talks about technophiles taking over the library.
ISSUE 13: April 29-May 3, 1996
Poetry for the rest of us: Salon presents nine poets to read all year 'round, plus an interview with Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney... Is "Friends" star David Schwimmer making it hip to be hapless? We hope not... Carina Chocano on the earthly hell that is Kinko's... Joyce Millman on Don Johnson; not just an actor, he's a way of life... Cintra Wilson goes on a manhunt and Anne Lamott wonders if she's lost her mind... reviews of new albums by ex-Replacement Paul Westerberg and a crop of young jazz turks.
ISSUE 12: April 22-28, 1996
An interview with author Lillian Rubin, on why some transcend childhood trauma -- and some don't... Al Sharpton talks about turning over a new leaf... Doug Fine on how the computer trade press helps promote buggy products... Joyce Millman on "Profit"... Interview with director David Russell... reviews of Gillian Welch, Los Lobos and "Mystery Science Theatre 3000."
ISSUE 11: April 6-21, 1996
Gary Kamiya critiques the New York Public Library's choice of "Books of the Century"...Hugh Pearson on expanding black Americans' sense of identity... Interviews with Fiona Shaw, "Rumpole's" John Mortimer, Richard Thompson and Cracker's David Lowery... Are the Feds coddling kooks in Montana? Experts debate... Arthur Allen on a black militant's Cuban exile... James Marcus on "All My Children's" appeal to the bedridden... Howard Rheingold talks to Doug Schuler on community networks....plus reviews of New Orleans R&B, the Cardigans, "Am I Thin Enough Yet?" and all our regular features.
ISSUE 10: March 23, 1996
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.
ISSUE 9: March 9, 1996
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.
ISSUE 8: February 24, 1996
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.
ISSUE 7: February 10, 1996
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.
ISSUE 6: January 27, 1996
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... How the "X-Files'" title designers work their one-minute masterpieces... 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.
ISSUE 5: January 13, 1996
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.
ISSUE 4: December 30, 1995
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.
ISSUE 3: December 16, 1995
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.
ISSUE 2: December 2, 1995
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.
ISSUE 1: November 20, 1995
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.
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