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Salon.com August 11, 2000 Laura Miller |
Alice Walker The stylistic constraints of "The Color Purple" kept her smug didacticism in check long enough to produce her one good book.  |
Salon.com August 10, 2000 Vivian Gornick |
The sphinx Susan Sontag's beauty and brains made her America's most famous intellectual, but her true self is a mystery.  |
Salon.com August 10, 2000 Mark Schone |
"The Burning of Bridget Cleary" and "Madumo: A Man Bewitched" Two cases of witchcraft, one historical and one contemporary, show the lethal results of superstition run amok.  |
Salon.com August 9, 2000 Elizabeth Manus |
Was Gatsby black? A professor says that only an African-American scholar could spot Fitzgerald's secret meaning.  |
Salon.com August 9, 2000 Christine Kenneally |
"The Making of Intelligence" by Ken Richardson A new attempt to answer a stubborn old question: If humans are such an intelligent species, why can't we figure out what IQ tests measure?  |
Salon.com August 8, 2000 Jon Bowen |
A spoonful of Dickens British doctors prescribe "bibliotherapy" for the stressed-out and depressed.  |
Salon.com August 8, 2000 Virginia Vitzthum |
"The Seekers: A Bounty Hunter's Story" by Joshua Armstrong A boastful, badass manhunter reveals the secrets of his craft.  |
Salon.com August 8, 2000 David Tuller |
Blood and guts Is there a difference between slasher films and gory tales from the E.R.? A spate of tell-all books by doctors gives us what we crave: Gruesomeness with a purpose.  |
Salon.com August 8, 2000 Janelle Brown |
E-book 'em! AtRandom publisher Jonathan Karp is looking for literary revelation -- and mass readership -- from digital books.  |
Fast Company September 2000 Sara Terry |
Free Trade Isn't Fair Mike Dolan is leading a long-shot crusade against the new economy's most widely shared belief: that global economic integration -- of countries, companies, currencies, and markets -- is both virtuous and inevitable.  |
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