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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST By Laura Miller Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/11/23/origin_into_schools/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/11/23/origin_into_schools/index.html?source=rss A "revised" edition of Darwin's "The Origin of Species" turns college campuses into three-ring circuses By Sandra Tsing-Loh Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/11/19/sarah_palin_going_rogue/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/11/19/sarah_palin_going_rogue/index.html?source=rss The surprising charms of the week's most talked-about political memoir By Laura Miller Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/11/17/vanity_book_awards/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/11/17/vanity_book_awards/index.html?source=rss Want to win some props for your masterpiece? We can do that -- for a price By Laura Miller Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/10/30/straub_interview/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/10/30/straub_interview/index.html?source=rss The author of "Ghost Story" and "Koko" talks about the fine art of literary terror By Laura Miller Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/10/22/twitter_story/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/10/22/twitter_story/index.html?source=rss Can a hundred Neil Gaiman-imitating twitterers produce anything worth reading? By Laura Miller Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/11/05/pw_10_best/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/11/05/pw_10_best/index.html?source=rss Controversy about Publishers Weekly's year-end list has the Internet up in arms By Laura Miller Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/10/14/uncivil_society/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/10/14/uncivil_society/index.html?source=rss Stephen Kotkin's fascinating "Uncivil Society" presents a revisionist account of Communism's failure By Laura Miller Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/10/06/vooks/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/10/06/vooks/index.html?source=rss Meet the "vook," the latest "book of the future" By Andrew Leonard Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/09/24/keynes/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/09/24/keynes/index.html?source=rss The legendary economist has been dead for 60 years but still managed to help us avoid a second Great Depression By Steve Almond Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/09/12/rightwing_bestsellers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/09/12/rightwing_bestsellers/index.html?source=rss A handful of right-wing bestsellers have recast mundane cultural dislocation into riveting epics of paranoia By Laura Miller Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/09/10/cheap_miller/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/09/10/cheap_miller/index.html?source=rss At a time when Americans are wallowing in consumer debt, let's reconsider the joys of penny pinching By Laura Miller Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/08/11/mad_men_advertising/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/08/11/mad_men_advertising/index.html?source=rss A huge culture shock awaits Sterling Cooper. Here's a look at the "creative revolution" that hit the ad world By James Hannaham Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/07/22/henry_louis_gates/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/07/22/henry_louis_gates/index.html?source=rss America's most prominent black intellectual was arrested trying to get into his own house. So why am I glad? By Stephanie Zacharek Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/07/20/frank_mccourt_obit/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/07/20/frank_mccourt_obit/index.html?source=rss The acclaimed author of "Angela's Ashes" resisted sentimentality, lacing his unhappy memories with humor and joy By Joe Coscarelli Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/07/14/infinite_summer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/07/14/infinite_summer/index.html?source=rss One giant book, 92 days, thousands of readers -- and the world's most ambitious reading group By Mary Elizabeth Williams Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/06/30/critic_fight/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/06/30/critic_fight/index.html?source=rss Alice Hoffman continues the literary tradition of lashing out at critics, Twitter style. Who's sorry now? By Laura Miller Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/06/23/vampire_fiction/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/06/23/vampire_fiction/index.html?source=rss The spirit of the Vampire Slayer lives on in the kickass young heroines of urban fantasy fiction By Laura Miller Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/06/16/francesca_lia_block/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/06/16/francesca_lia_block/index.html?source=rss A Christian group hopes to set fire to library copies of Francesca Lia Block's novel about a gay boy coming of age. By Barry Yourgrau Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/05/14/cellphone_fiction/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/05/14/cellphone_fiction/index.html?source=rss Cellphone novels, the rage in Japan, now have competition in America: Twitter fiction. By Simon Reynolds Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/04/23/ballard/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/04/23/ballard/index.html?source=rss 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 Andrew O'Hehir Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/04/19/jg_ballard_guide/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/04/19/jg_ballard_guide/index.html?source=rss 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 Leonard Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/03/10/leonard/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/03/10/leonard/index.html?source=rss Critic and novelist John Leonard built grand cathedrals out of language. His son pays tribute to his lexicon and his passion.