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Salon.com January 22, 2002 Amy Standen |
"In Cold Blood" Just over 40 years ago, a dandified New York reporter named Truman Capote traveled to Kansas to investigate the shotgun murder of a farm family. The result changed journalism forever...  |
Salon.com January 22, 2002 Charles Taylor |
The N word From Mark Twain to Chris Rock, it provokes book banning and nervous giggles. A black scholar asks if it's ever OK to say "nigger"...  |
Salon.com January 16, 2002 Jennifer Hanawald |
"The Dark Side" by Mark Schreiber A study of crime -- from kidnapping and cannibalism to mass murder -- in the land of the Rising Sun challenges the stereotype of a safe, orderly society...  |
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Intel Chairman Andrew Grove Reminds Us of Our Roots Swimming Across: A Memoir -- Andrew Grove's simple, elegant recounting of the first 20 years of his life -- is the rare exception to the self-aggrandizing mold of the corporate CEO memoir...  |
Salon.com January 15, 2002 Laura Miller |
I was a cowboy for the CIA In a new memoir, tough-guy ex-field agent Robert Baer blasts wimpy pencil pushers and "politics" for keeping him from lassoing terrorist evildoers. He's right -- but you wouldn't want his kind in charge, either...  |
Salon.com January 14, 2002 Gary Kamiya |
Big two-hearted Mark "Mark Twain," Ken Burns' new documentary, brings to feisty, heartbreaking life the most beloved -- and American -- of American writers...  |
Salon.com January 14, 2002 Allen Barra |
"The Hidden Hitler" by Lothar Machtan Critics have been far too quick to dismiss this controversial new book alleging that Hitler was gay...  |
Salon.com January 14, 2002 John Glassie |
E.O. Wilson The great scientist and conservationist explains the terrorism we insist on overlooking. And space colonies won't help, either...  |
Salon.com January 10, 2002 Damien Cave |
"Them: Adventures With Extremists" by Jon Ronson A writer takes a full-tilt trip into the world of Muslim fanatics, skinheads, survivalists and paranoid critics of the shadowy Bilderberg Group...  |
Salon.com January 10, 2002 Sophie Butcher |
Are we not housewives? I don't care what feminist moms say, Erma Bombeck is still the most relevant and hilarious voice in the wilderness of motherhood...  |
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