Suzy Hansen

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  • "Single, With Complexes" and "Science, Semi-Science and Nonsense"

    Readers respond to Gavin McNett's review of two dating books and Suzy Hansen's interview with skeptic Michael Shermer.
    By   August 31, 2001

  • Science, semi-science and nonsense

    A professional skeptic talks about what's real science (evolution, the Big Bang), what's balderdash (ESP, creationism) and what lies between (hypnotism, superstring theory).
    By Suzy Hansen August 27, 2001

  • Blood lust

    The coauthor of a new book on mosquitoes talks about who they bite, where they lurk and how they've killed over a billion human beings
    By Suzy Hansen August 20, 2001

  • The myth of the deadbeat dad

    A researcher who interviewed black fathers who don't live with their kids talks about their surprising views on parenting.
    By Suzy Hansen August 9, 2001

  • The mind of a killer

    A neurologist who studies murderers' brains talks about factors that make someone kill, the difficulty of predicting violence and why most murderers can never be rehabilitated.
    By Suzy Hansen July 27, 2001

  • "Nothing human left"

    A journalist who disguised herself as a Chechen woman talks about the atrocities of the war, the cowardice of Western journalists and the dim hopes for peace.
    By Suzy Hansen July 10, 2001

  • We've got company

    Astronomer David Darling talks about the controversial science of astrobiology and the near-certainty that extraterrestrial life forms exist in our solar system.
    By Suzy Hansen June 29, 2001

  • "All the Finest Girls" by Alexandra Styron

    The daughter of two egotistical white artists faces some ugly truths when she seeks out the kin of the Caribbean housekeeper who raised her.
    By Suzy Hansen June 22, 2001

  • The cueball chronicles

    Gersh Kuntzman talks about baldness cures, from the stinky to the effective, and how the tragedy of hair loss has shaped the course of empires and the cutting edge of science.
    By Suzy Hansen May 31, 2001

  • "Sister Noon" by Karen Joy Fowler

    A mysterious black woman is running the show in a comic novel of strivers, do-gooders and racial fear in Gilded Age San Francisco.
    By Suzy Hansen May 21, 2001

  • "American Son" by Brian Ascalon Roley

    In a searing look at the immigrant experience, two half-Filipino brothers navigate a California of small-time thieves, Mexican gangsters and attack dogs trained using Nazi techniques.
    By Suzy Hansen May 21, 2001

  • Is the honeymoon over?

    A historian says that American Jews are increasingly disenchanted with Israel and its policies, and more wrapped up in their own concerns.
    By Suzy Hansen May 4, 2001

  • The assault on the USS Liberty

    Experts respond to new evidence that the deadly 1967 attack on a U.S. spy ship by Israeli forces was deliberate.
    By Suzy Hansen April 25, 2001

  • "The Hero's Walk" by Anita Rau Badami

    A Canadian-raised orphan returns to her grandparents' Indian village in an irreverent look at the clash between tradition and modernity.
    By Suzy Hansen April 19, 2001

  • "The Gardens of Kyoto" by Kate Walbert

    A dazzling, intricate novel spins out the back story of American soldiers sent overseas, and the women they left behind.
    By Suzy Hansen April 19, 2001

  • The invention of peace

    A leading military scholar talks about what caused the world wars, why Kissinger was a true peacemaker and whether peace is incompatible with human nature.
    By Suzy Hansen April 12, 2001

  • Islam's black slaves

    The author of a book on the 1,400-year history of the other slave trade talks about the power of eunuchs, the Nation of Islam's falsehoods and the persistence of slavery today.
    By Suzy Hansen April 5, 2001

  • Let them spend millions

    Campaign finance reform stifles grass-roots organizing and harms American politics, says a member of the Federal Election Commission.
    By Suzy Hansen March 30, 2001

  • Our wolves in uniform

    A novelist tells how U.S. sailors take Thai sex tours on the taxpayer's dime, and the Christian right cries foul.
    By Suzy Hansen March 22, 2001

  • What to read: March fiction

    Allegra Goodman's hilarious tale of promiscuous spiritual seeking, Pat Barker's tough-minded look at a child who murders, Nuala O'Faolain's searing novel of middle-aged sexuality and more.
    By Salon's critics March 15, 2001

  • Mixing it up

    Alabama just legalized black-white marriage. An expert talks about why it took so long and the American obsession with racial purity.
    By Suzy Hansen March 8, 2001

  • "Looking Good: Male Body Image in Modern America" by Lynne Luciano

    A new book says men have become obsessed with their bodies, but does the rise of hair grafts and penis-enlargement surgery really spell the end of civilization?
    By Suzy Hansen March 5, 2001

  • "White-Collar Sweatshop" by Jill Andresky Fraser

    Bullying bosses, 24-hour on-call weeks, shrinking benefits -- and corporate workers never got their cut of the '90s boom.
    By Suzy Hansen March 1, 2001

  • "Coyote Ugly"

    Hot girls dance and dump water on themselves -- now with director's commentary, behind-the-bar footage and a chat with the starving actresses.
    By Suzy Hansen February 21, 2001

  • "A Spell of Winter" by Helen Dunmore

    In this Gothic wonder of a novel, madness, incest and even worse follow in the wake of a mother's ruthless desertion.
    By Suzy Hansen February 21, 2001
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