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In the midst of a deathly tome overflowing with her dratted ego, Judy Collins attempts to tell the unembellished tale of a sad death. And she pulls it off.
By Lorenzo W. Milam
July 29, 1999
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The writer was fatally shot Saturday night -- apparently by her estranged
husband, who later took his own life.
June 7, 1999
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A forensic scientist named James Starrs thinks the famous explorer may have been murdered -- and wants to dig up his body to try to find out.
By Leighton Woodhouse
March 23, 1999
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A Vincent Foster for Usenet liberals? By Andrew Leonard. The mysterious death of an online debater sparks a flurry of suspicions and theories.
By Andrew Leonard
March 19, 1999
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Within the cozy community of campus life, there are plenty of cracks to fall through.
By Lori Gottleib
February 22, 1999
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Georges Minois' exhaustive study traces the long, strange history of suicide.
By Daren Fonda
February 5, 1999
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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.'
By Salon Magazine
October 30, 1998
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Suicide watch on the Net: By David Cassel. When chat room participants say they're going to kill themselves, what should service providers do?
By David Cassel
August 20, 1998
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By Dawn Eden
March 10, 1998
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The Salon Interview - Laura Miller interviews Martin Amis about his new book, "Night Train" and the disturbing memoir he's working on.
By Laura Miller
February 10, 1998
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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.
By Scott Corey
January 21, 1998
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Theodore Kaczynski should be in a mental hospital. Instead, he's about to become the star in a grotesque courtroom circus.
By Ros Davidson
January 15, 1998
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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
By Mary Gaitskill
October 13, 1997
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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.
By Anne Lamott
July 3, 1997
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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.
By Lori Leibovich
June 30, 1997
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Friends and colleagues celebrate the writer's life -- and take issue, sometimes angrily, with those who have raised dark questions about it.
By James Surowiecki
June 26, 1997
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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.
By Bill McKibben
June 2, 1997
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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
By Fred Branfman
June 2, 1997
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After the suicide of Michael Dorris, dark questions cloud the reputation of this literary saint.
By Josie Rawson
April 21, 1997
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