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  • Salman Rushdie

    When life becomes a bad novel
    January 27, 1996

  • No Time for Dostoevsky in the Digital Age.

    A SALON survey revealed that few captains of digital capitalism have the time to immerse themselves in the pleasures of great literature.
    By Cynthia Joyce January 27, 1996

  • Literary Capitalism

    From John Stuart Mill to Bill Gates, the waning of the cultured capitalist
    By Cheryll Aimée Barron January 27, 1996

  • Jamaica Kincaid

    By Dwight Garner January 13, 1996

  • Blood Ties

    Behind today's feverish vampire obsession lurks a desire to create the cool family we never had.
    By Laura Miller January 13, 1996

  • Bringing the media gods down to earth

    Will the public journalism movement make the press more responsible -- or even more arrogant?
    By Jon Katz December 30, 1995

  • The best defense is a bestseller

    Richard North Patterson honed his storytelling craft by learning how to hold the interest of jaded judges and juries.
    By Joan Smith December 30, 1995

  • Children want the witch to die

    By Polly Shulman December 16, 1995

  • Literary offerings to the Gods of Gluttony

    The Ravenous Muse: A table of dark and comic contents, a bacchanal of books
    By Dwight Garner December 16, 1995

  • New Writers of the Celtic Wave

    A brilliant crop of authors has made Ireland a world literary capital again
    By Aingeal Conneely December 16, 1995

  • The Birth of a Mystery

    Jesus of Nazareth remains the most famous unknown man in history
    By Gary Kamiya December 16, 1995

  • Freudian FlameWars

    The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute
    By Laura Miller December 2, 1995

  • Heart of Darkness

    Anthropologist Philippe Bourgois went deeper into America's crack culture than anyone before him.Too deep.
    By Gary Kamiya December 2, 1995

  • Gentleman's agreement

    His own success notwithstanding, best-selling novelist Walter Mosley charges the publishing industry with "passive racism."
    By Richard Regen December 2, 1995

  • Austen-Mania

    Look out Michael Crichton: Jane Austen is becoming filmdom's favorite novelist
    By Laura Miller December 2, 1995

  • Lost Highway

    Tripping Down Bill Gates' Road to Nowhere
    By Scott Rosenberg December 2, 1995

  • The SALON Interview: Amy Tan

    November 12, 1995

  • My Inspiration: Vladimir Nabokov

    Sorcerer of cruelty
    By Mary Gaitskill November 12, 1995

  • Amy Tan's book bag

    November 12, 1995
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