Christine Smallwood is on the editorial staff of the Nation and co-editor of the Crier magazine.

Christine Smallwood's Salon stories

Thursday, Sep 27, 2007 04:23 PDT

Uncovering Gertrude and Alice

Janet Malcolm's search for the real Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas exposes some hard truths about the duo and biography itself.
Monday, Feb 12, 2007 04:10 PST

Fear factors

Allen Shawn -- son of William, brother of Wallace -- is afraid of almost everything, but not of writing a memoir of his phobic life.
Thursday, Aug 17, 2006 03:21 PDT

Destination: Berlin

The past of this eternally youthful "city of the world" is captured in the work of journalist Joseph Roth, author John le Carré and psychiatrist and novelist Alfred Döblin.
Friday, May 19, 2006 05:57 PDT

"The Man of My Dreams"

In the follow-up to her sleeper hit "Prep," Curtis Sittenfeld captures the pain of growing from girl to woman.
Thursday, Apr 13, 2006 04:38 PDT

The sweetest dream

A disinherited grandchild of the man who created Sweet'N Low dissects his screwy family -- and the history of fake sugar -- in a winning new book.
Wednesday, Oct 5, 2005 11:41 PDT

Girls gone wild

In "Female Chauvinist Pigs," Ariel Levy asks why so many young women today have embraced a raunchy, porn-drenched sexuality
Tuesday, Aug 9, 2005 08:50 PDT

Sapphic soldiers

Tereska Torres -- author of 1950s lesbian pulp novel "Women's Barracks" -- talks about the ladies of the Free French Forces, shocking American audiences, and being mistaken for a "lesbian writer."
Thursday, Jul 7, 2005 09:13 PDT

A babe in bunnyland

As the daughter of Hugh Hefner's personal doctor, Jennifer Saginor came of age in the sex-drenched world of drugs and celebrities at the Playboy Mansion. Now, she's trying to grow up.
Tuesday, May 17, 2005 13:17 PDT

China girl

Rachel DeWoskin moved to Beijing to work in a P.R. firm. How did she get a starring role as sex kitten Jiexi in a Chinese soap opera?
Sunday, Mar 13, 2005 14:03 PST

Microsoft's new project: Building a better high school

A partnership between the software giant and the Philadelphia School District is an innovative solution to an urban crisis. But can public education survive private management?

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