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  • "In the Shadow of No Towers" by Art Spiegelman

    This dark, troubling and sometimes hilarious 9/11 comic, created in a jumpy city uneasily balanced between Bush and Osama, may be the finest and most personal work of art to emerge from the tragedy.
    By Scott Thill September 10, 2004

  • Island of the cannibal Republicans

    One New York writer welcomes GOP delegates with a self-published Swiftian satire -- recipes included!
    By David Womack August 30, 2004

  • The man who invented the future

    Alan Moore, who reinvented the comic book as the cutting-edge literary medium of our day, talks about beheading, the diabolical power of the media, the Bush dynasty and the fall of Tony Blair.
    By Scott Thill July 22, 2004

  • Hazzard's "Fire" nominated for book prize

    February 24, 2004

  • Last man standing

    I finally got the kick-ass girl action movie I've been waiting for my whole life. Too bad it's a comic book -- and stars a guy.
    By Sheerly Avni July 21, 2003

  • Geek reads

    Growing up, all the kids -- black and white -- exiled me for being an obsessive reader. This year, I finally found three books that capture the black nerd experience.
    By Adrienne Crew June 27, 2003

  • "The Hulk"

    Are comic books art? Maybe, but this leaden, pretentious flick about Marvel Comics' big green id, from the overrated Ang Lee, is just schlock art for the NPR set.
    By Charles Taylor June 20, 2003

  • "X2"

    This snazzy sequel to Bryan Singer's comic-book smash "X-Men" is sleek and sexy, filled with delicious characters and effects. Just don't compare it to the original.
    By Stephanie Zacharek May 2, 2003

  • Garrison Keillor starts largest book club

    By the Associated Press August 20, 2002

  • Marvel's forgotten heroes

    Spidey's the celeb of the year. Blade and the X-Men are huge, with Daredevil, Iron Man and the Hulk waiting in the wings. When will Hollywood show some love for Marvel's venerable Fantastic Four?
    By Mark Holcomb June 5, 2002

  • Salon recommends

    Stylish new Wodehouse editions and more of our favorite books.
    April 22, 2002

  • Pietro di Donato's "Christ in Concrete"

    The long-lost novel that inspired Jimmy Breslin to write "The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez."
    By Allen Barra March 14, 2002

  • Bin Laden as Lex Luthor

    There's something hauntingly familiar about the world's latest personification of evil, something with deep resonance in U.S. mythology.
    By Gale Holland October 15, 2001

  • "Comic Book Nation" by Bradford W. Wright

    Before movies and rock 'n' roll, comics invented youth culture. But can they survive?
    By Damien Cave May 25, 2001

  • The patriot

    He was prepared to shed blood to defend liberty. What separates American terrorist Timothy McVeigh from thousands of other gun-worshiping zealots?
    By Gary Kamiya April 7, 2001

  • "X-Men"

    Why is this smart, handsome mutant movie so good? Director Bryan Singer says it's because he took the superhero story seriously.
    By Charles Taylor December 20, 2000

  • "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" by Michael Chabon

    In the rapturous, panoramic new novel by the author of "Wonder Boys," two midcentury comic book writers battle evil and celebrate escape in all its forms.
    By Amy Benfer September 28, 2000

  • The traitor

    Forget the sketchy allegations of wife-beating. Anthony Summers' new book makes clear that Richard Nixon's real crimes were against his country.
    By Charles Taylor September 1, 2000

  • "The Complete Superman Collection"

    Up in the sky! Look! It's a dynamic collection of classic animated shorts in gleaming Technicolor!
    By Michael Sragow August 25, 2000

  • Tom Clancy's dream for sick kids perishes

    By STEVE GUTTERMAN July 20, 2000

  • Letters to the Editor

    If Pete Rose won't fess up, he shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame; why we're chicken-pox party parents.
    Letters to the Editor November 2, 1999

  • Wine, it's the other red fluid

    Wine X's attempts at hipsterism evoke the not so subtle smell of oak barrel-aged fish. Plus: Geeks, freaks, fashion weeks and conspiracy theorists.
    By Jenn Shreve October 1, 1999

  • Spawn

    "Spawn", the big new special effects summer pic based on the comic book series, is a witless exercise in reheating leftovers.
    By Laura Miller September 1, 1997
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