A brief obituary of the British poet Ted Hughes, who died Wednesday Oct. 28, and links to Salon's glowing review of his last book of poems, 'Birthday Letters.'
Mad or not, there is a logic to the Unabomber's actions and it can be discerned from the ideas he espouses and writings attributed to him by his family or in
the Unabomber Manifesto.
In 'Halfway Heaven,' her otherwise acute chronicle of a Harvard student's savage murder of her roommate, author Melanie Thernstrom abandons her painstaking effort to make sense of the killing by resorting to an increasingly popular explanation of heinous crimes -- Good vs. Evil
As much as she'd like to wallow in the pleasures of Michael Dorris-bashing, Anne Lamott cannot bring herself to. She knew the man, and she remembers their talk last year on the banks of Idaho's Big Wood River.
The Supreme Court says there's no right to die. But the debate on doctor-assisted suicide will only continue, state by state. Salon talks to two advocates on either side of the issue.
The Road Best Traveled: In his latest book, 'Denial of the Soul,' M. Scott Peck argues against the conventional wisdom that euthanasia and assisted suicide are often the right choice. Bill McKibben describes how Peck might actually change your mind on the subject.
Suicide isn't painless: Death guru Stephen Levine wants to legalize assisted suicide -- but only for physical reasons. In other situations, taking one's life is just impatient, sloppy, a "shortcut." Fred Branfman interviews the popular author
