The "Hills" star puts reality TV behind her -- with a novel about a reality star who just wants to be a normal girl
By Thomas Rogers Jun 19, 2009
-
Aleksandar Hemon's fictional alter ego drinks and writes his way through exile in these superb coming-of-age tales.
By Allen Barra
June 4, 2009
-
Diamonds are a boy's best friend in this crackling novel of scams, sex and druggy escapades in the jewel trade.
By Laura Miller
May 26, 2009
-
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
-
Love among the iPods: A divorced TV director is content to be left alone with his old songs -- until he meets a new singer.
By Laura Miller
April 14, 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
-
Controversial "Wetlands" author Charlotte Roche talks about bodily functions, shaving pubic hair, and why there are so few euphemisms for female masturbation.
By Nina Power
April 4, 2009
-
Some of my best stories are true. What are the ethics?
By Cary Tennis
February 5, 2009
-
Getting a note of appreciation from John Updike could buoy you up for weeks. Now who's left to bless us?
By Garrison Keillor
February 4, 2009
-
What readers really want is dastardly deeds by dark, despicable men, or saucy wenches with pert breasts displayed like fresh fruit on a platter.
By Garrison Keillor
January 14, 2009
-
A '60s activist-turned-vigilante is tortured by a handsome interrogator in Glen Duncan's gripping new novel. So which one is the villain?
By Andrew O'Hehir
December 17, 2008
-
A lumber baron, a ruthless sexpot and a one-handed henchman star in this wildly entertaining tale of passion, murder and deforestation set in Depression-era North Carolina.
By Laura Miller
December 16, 2008
-
Our picks for the 10 most pleasurable fiction and nonfiction reading experiences of the year.
By Laura Miller
December 8, 2008
-
Midwesterners usually go south to misbehave, not to the handicapped stall in a Minneapolis men's room at halftime.
By Garrison Keillor
December 3, 2008
-
What if Hitler had a love child? A.N. Wilson's "Winnie and Wolf" is a chilling fictional tale of a clandestine affair.
By James Hannaham
November 25, 2008
-
A messed-up Midwestern family grapples with buried secrets in Sandra's Kring's gripping saga "Thank You for All Things."
By James Hannaham
September 30, 2008
-
Wildly praised and pathologically reviled, the writer who built a career on pop-cultural essays explains why he has written a novel about small-town America.
By Sarah Hepola
September 24, 2008
-
In his affecting new book, Roth's young hero abandons his Jewish upbringing for life in small town Ohio.
By Louis Bayard
September 16, 2008
-
"American Wife" author Curtis Sittenfeld on her first lady obsession, dirty bits with George W., and whether we're responsible for the behavior of our loved ones.
By Rebecca Traister
September 8, 2008
-
Everything was fine until I started reading unsolicited manuscripts.
By Cary Tennis
August 20, 2008
-
Meteorology meets conspiracy in Rivka Galchen's exquisite first novel about a man who mistakes his wife for an impostor.
By Laura Miller
August 13, 2008
-
The 9-year-old narrator of the heartbreaking "When We Were Romans" flees family chaos through literature.
By Laura Miller
July 24, 2008
-
The fiercely talented critic takes us on an illuminating tour of fiction -- but there's a hole in his plot.
By Louis Bayard
July 22, 2008
-
With its taproot in "Hamlet," this novel spins an engrossing tale of power struggles within a family of Wisconsin dog breeders.
By Laura Miller
June 27, 2008
-
Sebastian Barry may be the most exhilarating prose stylist in Irish fiction. His new book weaves together strands from Ireland's past -- and his own.
By Allen Barra
June 20, 2008
The unbearable lightness of Lauren Conrad
What should I read next?
Must Read: "How to Sell"
The unlimited dreams of J.G. Ballard
"The Song Is You"
The dirty girl
Should I change the names to protect the innocent?
Bereft
All-American terrorist
"Serena"
Salon Book Awards 2008
"Winnie and Wolf"
"Thank You for All Things"
Diagnosing Chuck Klosterman 
Philip Roth's Jewish question
Sex, power and Laura Bush
This is not my beautiful wife
The history boy
How to read the James Wood way
To breed or not to breed
Secrets and lives
GigaOM Network
Joan Walsh
Broadsheet