NEWSREAL:
Friday September 13, 1996: Browser wars showdown. Daily Quote: Publishers' spat.
Thursday September 12, 1996: Assassination debate. Daily Quote: Hit me again.
Wednesday September 11, 1996: Candace vs. Newt. Daily Quote: Enter Chelsea.
Tuesday September 10, 1996: In the trenches with Mexico's counter-insurgency troops.
Monday September 9, 1996: Sex and the single girls.
MEDIA CIRCUS:
Friday September 13, 1996: List-mania: Top 10 reasons why media rankings are really dumb.
Thursday September 12, 1996: Can the Web save independent media voices?
Wednesday September 11, 1996: Lunch Menu Man: Voicemail's first superstar.
Tuesday September 10, 1996: Bad weather, great ratings: The hurricane season premieres.
Monday September 9, 1996: Boring. Pretentious. Indecipherable. It's an art magazine!
SNEAK PEEKS:
Santa Evita By Tomas Eloy Martinez (Fiction)
Knopf, reviewed by Charles Taylor
An eerily enticing novel about the multiple myths surrounding Evita Peron -- and the mysteries surrounding her corpse.
The Living and the Dead By Paul Hendrickson (Fiction)
Knopf, reviewed by David Futrelle
A brilliant portrait of Vietnam-era Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and five others who were radically changed by the War.
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl By Siri Hustvedt (Fiction)
Henry Holt, reviewed by Megan Harlan
In sinister small-town Minnesota, a voluptuous waitress falls for an older, sophisticated college professor and stalks a ghost.
Great Books by David Denby (Nonfiction)
Simon & Schuster, reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
The author returns to Columbia University 30 years after graduating to read and write about the virtues (and vices) of the Great Books.
My Other Life By Paul Theroux (Fiction)
Houghton Mifflin, reviewed by Dwight Garner
Autobiographical novel or fictional autobiography? Either way, this prickly novel is a skillful meditation on identity and authorship.
TABLE TALK:
What's the state of satire?
Posts of the week.
SALON REGULARS:
Swamp Fever By James Carville
The lowdown on Dick Morris.
Harry Shearer's Fifth Column
In his inaugural column, comedian Harry Shearer's thoughts turn lightly to Dick Morris -- the man, the John, the note-taker.
Servant of the Bones Diary By Anne Rice
Alone in her hotel room, the novelist ponders Midwesterners' taste in pornography, passionate readers and going into the restaurant business. Plus: Rice answers readers' questions.
The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
Our columnist descends into the bottomless flaming pit at an Ike Turner concert.
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver.
Is "Star 69" -- aka Call Return -- the phone company's gift to emotional Peeping Toms? Leave your message in the Unzipped discussion in Table Talk.
Word by Word By Anne Lamott
The ugly truth about writers' conferences.
Verbivore By Richard Lederer
Author! Author! Be the first to identify the American writers in three literary anecdotes and win a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.
MODERN LIFE:
The Salon Interview: Mark Morris By Richard Covington
Don't call me zany: The dance world's bad boy on the thrill of simplicity, the horror of auditioning and the perils of gay marriage
DIGITAL CULTURE:
Incredibly strange history
By Scott Rosenberg
Voyager's CD-ROM series "Our Secret Century" mines subversive gold from forgotten films.
BOOKS:
Custer's latest stand
By Milo Miles
What's behind America's eternal fascination with the doomed general?
TV:
Shame and glory By Gary Kamiya
PBS's epic new series "The West" pulls no punches when it comes to depicting the ruthless settling of the American frontier.
MUSIC:
At play in the fields of the bored By Stephanie Zacharek
"New Adventures in Hi-Fi" proves once again that REM is impossible to dismiss.
Text-only version.
Viva la Vega By Joshua Klein
Suzanne Vega escapes the folk-rock label with the streamlined, stylish cacaphony of "Nine Objects of Desire."
Text-only version.
MOVIES:
Wild blue yonder By Charles Taylor
The creator of "The Black Stallion" works his magic again.
Text-only version.
COMICS:
Tom Tomorrow: This Modern World.
Carol Lay: Story Minute
Keith Knight: The K Chronicles
Ruben Bolling: Tom, The Dancing Bug