Douglas Cruickshank

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  • The Andrea Yates verdict is insane

    A mentally ill mother is guilty of little more than extraordinary need and dangerous fragility, and both are beyond her control.
    By Douglas Cruickshank March 14, 2002

  • An introduction

    The Life and People sites offer a week of articles about many-splendored living things, some of them furry, all of them edible.
    By Douglas Cruickshank and Jennifer Foote Sweeney March 4, 2002

  • "Rebels on the Air" by Jesse Walker

    Before it became an cash machine for station owners, radio was briefly the province of madmen who made it the liveliest medium in America.
    By Douglas Cruickshank February 11, 2002

  • "Sympathy for the Devil"

    Mick Jagger's mad, erudite incantation strutted '60s rock toward the dark side of history.
    By Douglas Cruickshank January 14, 2002

  • Colors flies over the cuckoo's nest

    The Benetton publication's latest issue on mental illness puts respectable newsmagazines to shame.
    By Douglas Cruickshank January 9, 2002

  • Girls and tires

    The girly calendars in the diesel shop of my youth were nothing like the Pirelli art photography -- except both feature sexy women.
    By Douglas Cruickshank December 21, 2001

  • LBJ: The White (House) album

    Lyndon Johnson's secret tapes offer extraordinary insight into the sometimes ugly reality of running the USA -- and into a complex man's tortured soul.
    By Douglas Cruickshank November 29, 2001

  • Why do you think they called them "best boys"?

    A new book names names and tells tales as it charts the lasting influence of gays and lesbians on the movie business.
    By Douglas Cruickshank November 8, 2001

  • They're rich because they're good

    Readers respond to recent articles on hating the Yankees, pet cars and Don DeLillo.
    October 29, 2001

  • "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition"

    A gripping documentary tells the wrenching story of a 1914 polar expedition that was hell on ice.
    By Douglas Cruickshank October 26, 2001

  • A Hello Kitty you can drive

    The future is pregnant with friendly, mood-sensitive cars. Fasten your seat belt, it's going to be a really, really cute ride.
    By Douglas Cruickshank October 24, 2001

  • Dispatches from Afghanistan

    Like Vietnam chronicler Michael Herr, Russian journalist Artyom Borovik captured the hallucinatory hell of war -- but these days it's Borovik's account of Afghanistan that seems the most relevant.
    By Douglas Cruickshank September 24, 2001

  • I crave your distinguished indulgence (and all your cash)

    In which the hapless author falls under the syntactically challenged spell of the legendary Nigerian e-mail scam.
    By Douglas Cruickshank August 7, 2001

  • Body Schatz

    A collection of nudes by a photographer interested in "letting the gods in" emphasizes sensuality without being graphic.
    By Douglas Cruickshank May 31, 2001

  • Death of a drug lord

    In "Killing Pablo," Mark Bowden details the 16-month game of cat and mouse that finally took down Medellín cartel founder Pablo Escobar -- with the help of the U.S. government.
    By Douglas Cruickshank May 24, 2001

  • Robert Sapolsky

    The author of "A Primate's Memoir," and the world's funniest neuroscientist, talks about hanging out with baboons, madness in Africa and the difference between apes and his kids.
    By Douglas Cruickshank May 14, 2001

  • You are what you eat, but so's the panther

    Welcome to a special series of articles on winning, losing, succeeding, failing, ascending, descending and living to tell the tales.
    By Douglas Cruickshank April 23, 2001

  • The music known as Vin Scully

    In which a reader's recollection of the acclaimed baseball announcer, still "impossibly hale, red-haired and perfect," makes our day.
    By Douglas Cruickshank April 20, 2001

  • Fine young cannibals

    Amateur ethnographer and author Tobias Schneebaum has lived and loved among former headhunters -- and even sampled their cuisine.
    By Douglas Cruickshank April 13, 2001

  • Bright lights, big weirdness

    Sex on dirty carpets, betrayal, decapitation, spirit possession, mega-money and a defendant they're calling the "Black Widow." Can Las Vegas' latest lurid trial be good for its image? You bet.
    By Douglas Cruickshank March 29, 2001

  • You've got kinky, salacious, virus-bearing mail, you sick puke!

    The most recent Internet-borne computer disease appeals to the weakness in our flesh.
    By Douglas Cruickshank March 7, 2001

  • Paranoia: Fear for connoisseurs

    Welcome to a special week's worth of articles on the darkness that strikes deep, takes hold and never lets go.
    By Douglas Cruickshank February 12, 2001

  • Hail to the chimp!

    A vast left-wing conspiracy seems hellbent on promulgating the idea that the new Leader of the Free World resembles a chimpanzee.
    By Douglas Cruickshank January 19, 2001

  • England's decadent delights

    In Douglas Cruickshank's essay from "Salon.com's Wanderlust," he samples the good life with Mariah Carey, clay pigeons and single malt scotches at a luxurious English castle hotel.
    Read by Douglas Cruickshank January 2, 2001

  • The cowardliness of their convictions

    Score another one for environmental activist Julia "Butterfly" Hill, as an ugly attack on the tree she saved illuminates her strengths and promotes her cause.
    By Douglas Cruickshank December 1, 2000
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