The surprising charms of the week's most talked-about political memoir
By Sandra Tsing-Loh Nov 19, 2009
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Want to win some props for your masterpiece? We can do that -- for a price
By Laura Miller
November 17, 2009
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The author of "Ghost Story" and "Koko" talks about the fine art of literary terror
By Laura Miller
October 30, 2009
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Can a hundred Neil Gaiman-imitating twitterers produce anything worth reading?
By Laura Miller
October 22, 2009
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Stephen Kotkin's fascinating "Uncivil Society" presents a revisionist account of Communism's failure
By Laura Miller
October 14, 2009
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Controversy about Publishers Weekly's year-end list has the Internet up in arms
By Laura Miller
November 5, 2009
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Meet the "vook," the latest "book of the future"
By Laura Miller
October 6, 2009
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The legendary economist has been dead for 60 years but still managed to help us avoid a second Great Depression
By Andrew Leonard
September 24, 2009
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A handful of right-wing bestsellers have recast mundane cultural dislocation into riveting epics of paranoia
By Steve Almond
September 12, 2009
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At a time when Americans are wallowing in consumer debt, let's reconsider the joys of penny pinching
By Laura Miller
September 10, 2009
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A huge culture shock awaits Sterling Cooper. Here's a look at the "creative revolution" that hit the ad world
By Laura Miller
August 11, 2009
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America's most prominent black intellectual was arrested trying to get into his own house. So why am I glad?
By James Hannaham
July 22, 2009
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The acclaimed author of "Angela's Ashes" resisted sentimentality, lacing his unhappy memories with humor and joy
By Stephanie Zacharek
July 20, 2009
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One giant book, 92 days, thousands of readers -- and the world's most ambitious reading group
By Joe Coscarelli
July 14, 2009
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Alice Hoffman continues the literary tradition of lashing out at critics, Twitter style. Who's sorry now?
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
June 30, 2009
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The spirit of the Vampire Slayer lives on in the kickass young heroines of urban fantasy fiction
By Laura Miller
June 23, 2009
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A Christian group hopes to set fire to library copies of Francesca Lia Block's novel about a gay boy coming of age.
By Laura Miller
June 16, 2009
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Cellphone novels, the rage in Japan, now have competition in America: Twitter fiction.
By Barry Yourgrau
May 14, 2009
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His dark, perverse fiction is unforgettable. But the author of "Crash" and "Empire of the Sun" was also a visionary who mapped the collision of culture and technology, media and desire.
By Simon Reynolds
April 23, 2009
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The visionary writer has passed away at age 78. This entry from "The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors" takes us on a tour of his best and bravest work.
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 19, 2009
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Critic and novelist John Leonard built grand cathedrals out of language. His son pays tribute to his lexicon and his passion.
By Andrew Leonard
March 10, 2009
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In this powerful speech, the great author explains his controversial decision to accept a literary prize in Israel and why we need to fight the System.
By Haruki Murakami
February 20, 2009
Democrat goes rogue, declares Palin's book "great"!
Vanity book awards
Peter Straub on how to scare readers
Crowdsourcing "Coraline"
Why the Berlin Wall fell
Do readers really want video-book hybrids?
John Maynard Keynes: Don't call it a comeback
Glenn Beck is the future of literary fiction
Can cheap be sexy?
Will the swinging '60s crush our "Mad Men"?
The good news about the Henry Louis Gates fiasco
Remembering Frank McCourt, 1930-2009
David Foster Wallace lives on for an "Infinite Summer"
Hey, authors, don't tweet in anger!
A guide to vampire fiction with real bite
A teen book burns at the stake
Call me Ishmael. The end.
The unlimited dreams of J.G. Ballard
A eulogy for my father's words
The novelist in wartime
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War Room
Glenn Greenwald