How we've all found a convenient way of avoiding the truth about his troubled past
By Mikki Halpin Feb 8, 2010
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"On the Brink" gets panned for lack of insight. If you have stupid questions that need answering, try The Baffler
By Andrew Leonard
February 8, 2010
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The true story of a woman whose enormous gift to science was shamefully repaid
By Laura Miller
February 7, 2010
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A new book probes the romantic appeal -- and surprisingly kinky sex life -- of whales
By Jed Lipinski
February 6, 2010
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Author Ariel Gore talks about the subject everyone can disagree on -- women and happiness
By Amy Benfer
February 5, 2010
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From 9/11 to the moon landing, how conspiracy theories have changed history -- and why we must fight back
By Thomas Rogers
February 3, 2010
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In an age of audiobooks, only 10 percent of blind kids learn it. But listening isn't the same as reading
By Stephen Towey and Helen Cota
February 3, 2010
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Talking medicine, checklists and alternative music with New Yorker staff writer and surgeon Atul Gawande
By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D.
February 2, 2010
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Amazon's behind-the-scenes battle with publishers shows how the iPad is already making its mark
By Laura Miller
February 1, 2010
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Darwin, Warhol and Proust -- what history's greatest worrywarts got out of being "sick"
By Laura Miller
January 31, 2010
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How our desperate desire to stop aging has created an industry fueled by questionable science and outright greed
By Thomas Rogers
January 30, 2010
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A slide show of the most memorable jackets for J.D. Salinger's best-known book
By Salon staff
January 28, 2010
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What the creator of Holden Caulfield taught a nation of readers and writers
By Laura Miller
January 28, 2010
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Zinn reads the introduction to his best-known book
By Salon staff
January 28, 2010
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His work taught us that history doesn't just belong to the powerful -- and that it's ours to shape
By Gabriel Winant
January 28, 2010
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Why promoting books with movie-style trailers is a silly idea
By Laura Miller
January 26, 2010
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Terry Castle discusses her sexually charged new memoir -- and why Susan Sontag stayed in the closet
By Jed Lipinski
January 25, 2010
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John Lanchester's new book is the most fun you'll ever have learning about worldwide economic collapse
By Laura Miller
January 24, 2010
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How Achebe's novels captured the soul of a continent -- and helped me discover my own history
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
January 23, 2010
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Great novelist, chick-lit pioneer, vampire. Will the real Miss Austen please stand up?
By Laura Miller
January 20, 2010
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How the crime novelist taught me to stand up for myself and taught my son about the carnal pleasures of reading
By Steven Axelrod
January 20, 2010
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The author of a new book talks about the brain's hidden impulses, and why you're more biased than you think
By Thomas Rogers
January 19, 2010
Salinger: "Recluse" with an ugly history of women
Hank Paulson: A not very good improviser
"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks"
"The Whale": 500 days of blubber
"Bluebird": Lady sings the blues
"Voodoo Histories": When smart people believe dumb things
Why is braille dying?
"Checklist Manifesto": Healthcare reform rock star
Kindle killer
"The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives"
"Eternity Soup": Dying for eternal youth
"The Catcher in the Rye": A story in covers
J.D. Salinger: Voice of America
Goodbye to people's historian Howard Zinn
Never coming to a screen near you
"The Professor and Other Writings": A critic gets personal
"I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay"
The man who rediscovered Africa
The battle for Jane Austen
Robert B. Parker: Farewell to a tough-guy writer
"The Hidden Brain": Behind your secret racism
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