Books Features

A 10-best books list without women? A 10-best books list without women?

Controversy about Publishers Weekly's year-end list has the Internet up in arms
By Laura Miller Nov 5, 2009

  • John Maynard Keynes: Don't call it a comeback

    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

  • Glenn Beck is the future of literary fiction

    A handful of right-wing bestsellers have recast mundane cultural dislocation into riveting epics of paranoia
    By Steve Almond September 12, 2009

  • Can cheap be sexy?

    At a time when Americans are wallowing in consumer debt, let's reconsider the joys of penny pinching
    By Laura Miller September 10, 2009

  • Will the swinging '60s crush our "Mad Men"?

    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

  • The good news about the Henry Louis Gates fiasco

    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

  • Remembering Frank McCourt, 1930-2009

    The acclaimed author of "Angela's Ashes" resisted sentimentality, lacing his unhappy memories with humor and joy
    By Stephanie Zacharek July 20, 2009

  • David Foster Wallace lives on for an "Infinite Summer"

    One giant book, 92 days, thousands of readers -- and the world's most ambitious reading group
    By Joe Coscarelli July 14, 2009

  • Hey, authors, don't tweet in anger!

    Alice Hoffman continues the literary tradition of lashing out at critics, Twitter style. Who's sorry now?
    By Mary Elizabeth Williams June 30, 2009

  • A guide to vampire fiction with real bite

    The spirit of the Vampire Slayer lives on in the kickass young heroines of urban fantasy fiction
    By Laura Miller June 23, 2009

  • A teen book burns at the stake

    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

  • Call me Ishmael. The end.

    Cellphone novels, the rage in Japan, now have competition in America: Twitter fiction.
    By Barry Yourgrau May 14, 2009

  • The unlimited dreams of J.G. Ballard

    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

  • Remembering J.G. Ballard, 1930-2009

    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

  • A eulogy for my father's words

    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

  • The novelist in wartime

    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

  • John Updike's life and work

    The entry from "The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors," published in 2000.
    By David Lipsky January 27, 2009

  • How to write a poem for the president

    Elizabeth Alexander has been commissioned to write a poem for Inauguration Day. But the checkered history of the form suggests it's an almost impossible task.
    By Jim Fisher January 15, 2009

  • The Holocaust memoir so heartwarming it had to be fake

    Herman Rosenblat's concentration-camp romance duped Oprah, among many others. Why are we so eager to put a happy ending on a tragedy?
    By Lev Raphael January 7, 2009

  • Read it and weep

    The economic news couldn't be worse for the book industry. Now insiders are asking how literature will survive.
    By Jason Boog December 23, 2008
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