27 May 2009: Morning

With the tally holding firm at five states, California's ruling puts the heart of same-sex marriage squarely in New England.

North Korea's recent provocation raises the question of whether we're still at war.

Sixty-five years to the day of the first Normandy briefing, soldiers who were there reflect on the invasion.

Dan Froomkin: More than the web, lazy journalists and stale content are culpable for newspapers' demise.

Autopsies are on the wane, which means new causes of death may be slipping by our pathologists' watchful eyes.

Twenty years after Tiananmen, China erases the incident by buying off scholars and giving students something to dream about.

Naturally, my mother was fundamentally opposed to buying Pepsi or Coca-Cola. A German conservative describes his liberal upbringing.

Today's long read: Probe into the attempt on Kundera's reputation for alleged complicity with Czech communists--the truth may be found in his novels.

Is it OK to run an illegal library from my locker at school?

Kayne West, proud non-reader, will publish a sparse, 52-page philosophical work.

Starkiller grabs the princess by the arm, and hauls her to the speeder. Unearthing the original, horrible Star Wars scripts.

Classic: Daniel Radosh and Michael Tritter go inside the making of the Star Saga saga.

TMN's Pasha Malla wins this year's Danuta Gleed Literary Award for The Withdrawal Method.