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ISSUE # 3
Children Want the Witch to Die. By Polly Shulman Plus: The Children's Canon. Authors and illustrators William Steig, Katherine Paterson, Jerry Pinkney, William Joyce and Jon Scieszka pick the greatest kids' books of all time.
Birth of a Mystery. By Gary Kamiya
The SALON Interview: Oliver Stone.
The SALON Roundtable: Peace in Bosnia?
Fighting Demons on Death Row. By Kathy Dobie
New Writers of the Celtic Wave. By Aingeal Conneely
The Ghosts of Christmas Past. By Israel Medina, Lyn Duff, Ri'chard Magee, Sierra Kazarian, Aminah Owens, Chih-Hong Hsu and Marian Liu. No Room at the Bin. By Scott Rosenberg
Kids don't just want to have fun. They want to know right from wrong, a mission performed by children's books, from 19th century morality tales to today's psychological primers.
Jesus of Nazareth remains the most famous unknown man in history. A conversation with biographer A. N. Wilson.
The director of "Nixon" talks about his empathy for the most reviled president of our time.
A panel of journalists scrutinizes the new treaty, and the chances for a lasting peace.
After she killed a Jacksonville, Florida policeman in 1983, Andrea Hicks Jackson began a long, strange journey to redemption.
Ireland is a world literary capital again, and novelist/Irish Times literary critic Mary Morrissy spotlights the writers who are making it happen.
The reminiscences of these young writers testify that not every Christmas is bright.
An insider gives us a tour through the nightmare of CD-ROM retailing.
Hot Button. The Pentagon -- tough on gays, soft on racists; Madonna -- desperately seeking a new career and a new life.
Newsreal. Geeks take to the streets against Net censorship; the new boom in how-to-get-to-Heaven books; Hollywood's fatal attraction to the past; and more.
Playground. Disney Can't Have My Child. By Joyce Millman
21st. Mr. Rheingold's Neighborhood.
Smoking Gun. By Jon Katz
This Sporting Life. By Tim Green
Lit Chat.
Verbivore.
A mother's lament: It is virtually impossible, unless you're living among the Amish (maybe), to raise a child without some exposure to the Empire of the Mouse.
Internet marketing expert Donna Hoffman talks with Howard about the commercial future of the Web.
Silicon Valley greed and egomania lead to high-tech murder in "Death on the Web," this week's Five-Minute Mystery. The first reader to solve the crime wins a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.
In a new column, the novelist and former Atlanta Falcons star takes a hard look at the cold-blooded world of NFL economics.
Barbara Kingsolver on the art of eavesdropping and walking the fine line between multiculturalism and imagination.
Christmas According to Student Bloopers and a punning holiday quiz from language maven Richard Lederer.
Music. Moonlighting pop stars often shine brighter in their sideline bands. By Sam Hurwitt.
SALON Picks: James Brown's "Funky Christmas" and Roseanne Cash's "Retrospective."
Dog of the Week: The new Al Pacino/Robert De Niro vehicle "Heat" drowns in its own banalities.
Ill Humor. Ian Shoales provides stunning, incomparable and vibrant examples of the how the language of marketing hype is providing America with a new, improved line of patter. The Raw and the Cooked. Douglas Cruickshank pays tribute to Oscar Wilde, the man who turned his life into his art, on the centennial of his shameful trial.
Plus: Wilde drinks the Bohemians under the table.
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