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NEWSREAL:
Friday November 8, 1996: Chechnya's home away from home — in Turkey.
Daily quote: Burned out.
Thursday November 7, 1996: Why the Republicans lost the battle but will win the war.
Daily quote: The rod.
Wednesday November 6, 1996: Special Election Issue:
Tuesday November 5, 1996: Pass the Maalox.
Daily quote: Voting right.
Monday November 4, 1996: Vote for a working woman. Daily quote: PC prison.
MEDIA CIRCUS:
Friday November 8, 1996: Random House honcho flees "provincial" NY for LA.
Thursday November 7, 1996: Just shoe it: Nike's consumer temple shakes up 5th Avenue.
Wednesday November 6, 1996: Drooping anchors: TV's dreary election coverage.
Tuesday November 5, 1996: Hot 'n' hunky: Pro wrestling's big cable brawl.
Monday, November 4, 1996: Blood will out? Peddling home HIV tests.
SNEAK PEEKS:
Batman Collected By Chip Kidd (Nonfiction)
Bullfinch Press, reviewed by Richard Gehr
Mountains of lovingly-photographed kitsch about the Caped Crusader, compiled by an acclaimed Knopf book designer.
M is for Malice
By Sue Grafton (Fiction)
Henry Holt, reviewed by Elizabeth Pincus
Private eye Kinsey Millhone, returns in a mystery that's largely about matters of the heart -- and about men who won't commit.
Houdini!!! The Career of Ehrich Weiss
By Kenneth Silverman (Nonfiction)
HarperCollins, reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
An chronicle of Houdini's life, his famous stunts and his career as a writer, raconteur and exposer of shyster psychics.
The Family Markowitz By Allegra Goodman (Fiction)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, reviewed by Dwight Garner
Short stories about a cerebral and squabbling extended Jewish family by a young writer with a wonderfully unfussy, matter-of-fact style.
My Dark Places By James Ellroy (Nonfiction)
Knopf, reviewed by Charles Taylor
A hardboiled memoir, by the well-known mystery writer, about his reckoning with his mother's still unsolved 1958 murder.
SHARPS & FLATS:
"2001: A Space Odyssey" By Tim Riley
Classic movie music: New takes on "Psycho" and "2001".
Johnny Cash's "Unchained": By Gavin McNett
Essential work by the master.
Van Halen: "Best Of, Vol. 1" By David Fenton
When Van Halen rocked.
Presidents of the USA: "II" By Mark Athitakis
A case for term limits.
Joni Mitchell: "Hits" and "Misses" By Joyce Millman
Both sides of the greatest confessional singer-songwriter of our time.
TABLE TALK:
Is sex a spiritual experience?
Posts of the week.
SALON REGULARS:
Swamp Fever By James Carville
The real reason Dole is going to lose: People don't like him.
Servant of the Bones Diary By Anne Rice
Anne Rice answers readers' questions about God and the goddess — and bids farewell to Salon.
Announcing: The winners of the "Cinderella by Anne Rice" writing contest.
The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
A razor in the Big Apple: Halloween, Cintra style.
Word by Word By Anne Lamott
Gypsy Dance: In the midst of a mid-life crisis, Anne Lamott recognizes the beauty in having come through.
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Marriage with the proper alien: would you do it for a green card? Cast your vote in the Unzipped discussion in Table Talk.
The Listress By Amy Wallace
Support Groups Anonymous: a trivia quiz. The first to submit the correct answers wins a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.
ISSUES AND POLITICS:
Shoales' roles for Mrs. Dole
By Ian Shoales
The post-election future looks bright for Liddy —if she can just learn to wear a breastplate.
BOOKS:
The myth of Muhammed Ali
By Gary Kamiya
The reality of the greatest athlete of the 20th century is inspiring enough. But in "The Tao of Muhammad Ali," Davis Miller turns hero worship into pure theology.
The Salon Interview: Laura Esquivel By Joan Smith
The author of "Like Water for Chocolate" on love and other illegal acts.
MOVIES:
Saved by the belle By Stephanie Zacharek
The garish junk in Baz Luhrmann's new "Romeo and Juliet" can't bury the brilliance of Claire Danes.
Currying favor with Ismail Merchant By Renee Monrose
A conversation with one half of art-house cinema's dream team, Merchant-Ivory ("A Room with a View," "Howards End").
DIGITAL CULTURE:
After the Gold Rush
By Scott Rosenberg
The press is full of Web backlash lately. What's the real story behind the screaming headlines?
COMICS:
Tom Tomorrow: This Modern World
Carol Lay: Story Minute
Keith Knight: The K Chronicles
Ruben Bolling: Tom, The Dancing Bug
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