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  • Susan Sontag's final wish

    She wanted hope, a reason to believe she would survive cancer. In a candid interview, her son, David Rieff, discusses his mother's battle to live and his struggle to hide the truth.
    By Steve Paulson February 13, 2008

  • The battle of the literary endorsements

    Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison have both gone public with their presidential picks. What do their overwrought odes tell us about the candidates they favor?
    By Laura Miller January 31, 2008

  • The atheist delusion

    Theologian John Haught explains why science and God are not at odds, why Mike Huckabee worries him, and why Richard Dawkins and other "new atheists" are ignorant about religion.
    By Steve Paulson December 18, 2007

  • Craig Venter is the future

    The most groundbreaking science is being done outside academia and government. And the egomaniacal geneticist is leading the way.
    By Jonathon Keats December 5, 2007

  • Norman Mailer 1923 - 2007

    Remembrances of Norman Mailer by Marlon Brando, Liz Smith, Irving Howe, Diana Trilling, Edward Abbey, Germaine Greer and other notables.
    Compiled by Dana Cook November 11, 2007

  • Remembering Norman Mailer through his books

    This entry from "The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors" takes us on a tour of his best, his worst and his bravest.
    By A.O. Scott November 10, 2007

  • Give Newt a chance

    All he is saying is that conservatives can be green, and with some good ol' know-how, America can lead the world out of its environmental troubles.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski November 10, 2007

  • How Cheney took control of Bush's foreign policy

    The new veep installed crony Don Rumsfeld as secretary of defense, and would've won Paul Wolfowitz the top post at CIA -- if not for Wolfowitz's zipper problem.
    By Craig Unger November 9, 2007

  • How George Bush really found Jesus

    The story Bush tells about how Billy Graham converted him is a fable, concocted during the 2000 presidential campaign. Here's the truth.
    By Craig Unger November 8, 2007

  • Battle of the Bushes

    The battle lines between father and son were drawn. In the balance hung policies that would kill and maim hundreds of thousands of people and change the global balance of power for years to come.
    By Craig Unger November 7, 2007

  • Their terrifying sounds

    The great 20th century composers revolutionized music, only to be rewarded with obscurity. Can the New Yorker's Alex Ross revive them in a world of Britney Spears?
    By Kevin Berger November 2, 2007

  • Dumbledore? Gay. J.K. Rowling? Chatty.

    What happens when authors like J.K. Rowling can't stop telling their own stories?
    By Rebecca Traister October 23, 2007

  • All the candidates' books

    The 2008 presidential contenders have written way too many books. A readers guide to 18 of them, the Good, the Bad and the Cosmic.
    By Salon staff October 18, 2007

  • Proud atheists

    Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein, America's brainiest couple, confess that belonging to one of America's most reviled subcultures doesn't mean they believe scientists can explain everything.
    By Steve Paulson October 15, 2007

  • Salon's guide to Nobel winner Doris Lessing

    Novelist, memoirist, activist, fantasist -- this entry from "The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors" takes you on a guided tour of the celebrated writer's long literary career.
    By Laura Morgan Green October 12, 2007

  • The 9/11 backlash against women

    Terror swept women back into the kitchen, argues Susan Faludi, and tore open the worst scar in American history. But it's Bruce Springsteen who makes the fear so real.
    By Rebecca Traister October 3, 2007

  • Our rosy future, according to Freeman Dyson

    Climate change is nothing to worry about, says the eminent physicist. Let's celebrate genetic engineering and our ability to design a new world of plants and creatures.
    By Onnesha Roychoudhuri September 29, 2007

  • Edward Klein's next three books

    The noted biographer of Hillary Clinton, Jackie Kennedy and, most recently, Katie Couric takes on three more power-crazed sluts, uh, powerful women.
    By someone who is not Edward Klein September 19, 2007

  • "Broken Government"

    I never thought that the GOP posed a threat to the well-being of our nation. But these days, I no longer recognize my old party.
    By John W. Dean September 11, 2007

  • L'Engle's last wrinkle

    Madeleine L'Engle wrote children's books that were too complicated for grown-ups. I'll miss her.
    By Laurel Snyder September 10, 2007

  • Are Democrats really so lame?

    Republicans are on the ropes, but yet another mainstream media star says it's Democrats who are in trouble, thanks to Bush-hating bloggers and billionaires. Here we go again.
    By Joan Walsh August 21, 2007

  • The religious state of Islamic science

    Turkish-American physicist Taner Edis explains why science in Muslim lands remains stuck in the past -- and why the Golden Age of Mesopotamia wasn't so golden after all.
    By Steve Paulson August 13, 2007

  • Russ Feingold is not from the real world

    The maverick senator, subject of a new biography, is the latest embodiment of a long and unique Wisconsin tradition.
    By Edward McClelland July 24, 2007

  • Bob Novak is not one of the popular kids

    The prickly right-wing columnist, covert-agent outer and all-around "Prince of Darkness" explains how he rose to the top of D.C.'s journalistic heap.
    By Edward McClelland July 17, 2007

  • Empty thine in-box

    A spate of e-mail etiquette guides and productivity manuals commands us to clear out our e-mail. Don't we all have better things to do?
    By Scott Rosenberg July 13, 2007
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