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  • Ashes To Ashes

    Michael Ross reviews "Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War the Public Health and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris" by Richard Kluger.
  • I Was Amelia Earhart

    Katherine Whittamore reviews "I Was Amelia Earhart" by Jane Mendelsohn.
  • Wearing Thin

    Feminist theories about brainwashed, anorexic women don't stand up to scrutiny
  • Long Time Gone

    A Black Militant's Exile in Castro's Cuba
  • Tome Deaf

    The New York Public Library's "Books of the Century" is a rigged literary parlor game
  • "Champagne for everyone!"

    The effervescent wit and politics of John Mortimer
  • The Heartbeat Of Conscience

    The fiction of Andre Dubus
  • Lifting Up The Madonna

    Nicholson Baker discusses the public trials of writing about sex and the private joy of writing on rubber spatulas with a ballpoint pen.
  • Stars for a day

    American authors bask in the Gallic limelight at the 16th Paris Book Fair
  • How the West was fleeced

    By spoon-feeding a spiritually starved America with wisdom pellets from the East, Deepak Chopra has turned himself into a one-man publishing empire
  • The Man Who Saved the World

    Hoist a glass of green beer to St. Patrick, the man who preserved Western civilization.
  • the unsquarest person around

    Albert Murray's defiance of separatism and celebration of the "Omni-American," inspired a generation of freethinking black intellectuals
  • David Foster Wallace

  • Carolyn Chute's Wicked Good Militia

    The author of "The Beans of Egypt, Maine" is leading an army of grave, silent woodsmen in a backwoods campaign against corporate greed
  • Right Punks on Dope

  • Al Franken

    "Hello, I'm Rush L., and I'm an overeater."
  • Sissyhood is powerful

    Man's journey from Iron John to Ironing Johns
  • Interview With A Grossologist

  • Ridiculous Liaisons

    The Love Affair as a Work of Art
  • Non-disclosure

    Behind a convenient curtain, an anonymous writer throws poisoned darts at the President, and the cognoscenti applaud.
  • Making the cut

    With its much-hyped list of the Best Young American Writers, Granta may have nudged the most neurotic subgroup in the country over the edge
  • Salman Rushdie

    When life becomes a bad novel
  • Sundance: The Women's Hour

    The most talked-about (and best) competition films focused on female characters -- a reaction, perhaps, to last year's glut of Tarantino-style shoot-'em-ups.
  • Literary Capitalism

    From John Stuart Mill to Bill Gates, the waning of the cultured capitalist
  • No Time for Dostoevsky in the Digital Age.

    A SALON survey revealed that few captains of digital capitalism have the time to immerse themselves in the pleasures of great literature.
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