Nothing, actually. Aside from our panic that the Internet is melting their brains.
By Amy Goldwasser Mar 14, 2008
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Novelist, memoirist, activist, fantasist -- this entry from "The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors" takes you on a guided tour of the celebrated writer's long literary career.
By Laura Morgan Green
October 12, 2007
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Nobel-winner Doris Lessing has shrugged off feminist interpretations of her work -- with good reason.
By Carol Lloyd
October 12, 2007
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Dystopian futures don't just belong to the cyberpunks. Doris Lessing could play post-apocalyptic with the best of them.
By Andrew Leonard
October 11, 2007
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The struggles and desires of this former British colony come through in novels from Doris Lessing, a Shona woman and Zimbabwe's own bad boy of letters.
By Alexandra Fuller
June 15, 2006
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A wide-eyed extraterrestrial is instructed about how a man named Bush became the most powerful leader on Earth -- and how he led the planet into chaos.
By Fred Branfman
April 2, 2003
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One of our greatest novelists delivers a family saga that's also a scathing indictment of the selfishness of the '60s era left and its Third World idols.
By Laura Miller
February 21, 2002
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Doris Lessing addresses the fate of Ben, the tragic social misfit she gave life to in her novel "The Fifth Child."
June 12, 2001
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The author of "Interpreter of Maladies" checks in with great fiction about hotels.
By Jhumpa Lahiri
April 3, 2000
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A writer to reckon with takes on a dozen women who were writers to reckon with.
By Polly Morrice
March 28, 2000
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With its hip new edition of the Good Book, Grove Press aims to save the Bible from the fundamentalists.
By Jonathon Keats
November 29, 1999
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The author of "Fear of Flying" selects six novels for those who believe that the brain is the most important erogenous zone.
By Erica Jong
August 16, 1999
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Norah Vincent
reviews 'Mara and Dann' by Doris Lessing.
By Norah Vincent
January 8, 1999
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Dwight Garner interviews Doris Lessing, author of 'The Golden Notebook,' and the new memoir, 'Walking in the Shade.'
By Dwight Garner
November 11, 1997