Fiction - The Edge
Tricia Lande paints herself into the borderland between fiction and reality.

Book Reviews & Interview
Lisa Miller interviews Sapphire about her latest... Push. Ron Hogan maps William Vollmann's Atlas, and Mitch Meyers time travels into Punk history with Killing Me Softly.

Spam
Boris, Rudy and Spam: Two Hams and a Spam. What's a chef to do?

3 Erotic Shorts
Class, Race, Gender: Power in the Boudoir - A Delicate Balance.

Bad Mojo Review
And you think you have roach problems now...just wait!

X Games
Margarette Dykstra on what puts the X in X Games.

Bacon à Beaubourg
Jean-Philippe Follet takes us through the Francis Bacon retrospective at Georges Pompidou Center in Paris ( until October 14) and lets us know why it clearly constitutes THE cultural event of 1996. In French and English.

Tim Carrier
UD sits down with an emerging young artist as he shares his vision of Eden, Apes and a good Cup o'Joe.

Primitive Radio Gods interview
That Primitive Radio God himself Chris O'Conner and our own David Levine run down luck, funk, rock, rap and finding a stripper with a beat.

Reviews
David Levine time travels with three legends: Patti Smith, Elvis Costello and Los Lobos.

Film Reviews
Stan Schwartz marvels about Twelfth Night, Secrets and Lies, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills and Emma.