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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
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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
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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
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"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
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Everything was fine until I started reading unsolicited manuscripts.
By Cary Tennis
August 20, 2008
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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
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The 9-year-old narrator of the heartbreaking "When We Were Romans" flees family chaos through literature.
By Laura Miller
July 24, 2008
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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
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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
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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
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In Salman Rushdie's satisfying fairy tale "The Enchantress of Florence," magic and history entwine -- and so do a middle-aged emperor and a sexy princess.
By Laura Miller
June 13, 2008
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Chick chat: From a black-humored romantic romp to the tale of a single woman flirting her way around the world, these novels make perfect beach companions.
By Salon staff
June 2, 2008
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With its teen sex, meth habits and quarter-life crises, Janelle Brown's addictive Silicon Valley novel shows that in every boom, there's a bust.
By Rebecca Traister
May 28, 2008
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The unlikely heroine of "Lavinia" leaps out of the Aeneid and brings an ancient culture -- deeply bound by "duty, order and justice" -- to life.
By Laura Miller
May 1, 2008
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Karen Joy Fowler's follow-up to bestseller "The Jane Austen Book Club" is a detective novel about a mystery writer whose tales come back to haunt her.
By Louis Bayard
April 18, 2008
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Jonathan Coe's graceful new novel is the tale of daughters destined to repeat the failures of their mothers.
By Laura Miller
April 10, 2008
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A haunting new alternative history imagines an invading German army living alongside the natives in rural Wales.
By Laura Miller
March 18, 2008
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"Lush Life," Price's latest tour of down-low urban America, is an acute portrait of the Darwinian adaptations required to survive in our city jungles.
By Richard B. Woodward
March 10, 2008
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Alain Robbe-Grillet turned the masses against inventive fiction. Now that he's dead, will experimental writing make a comeback?
By Stephen Marche
March 6, 2008
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An innocent math professor gets caught up in the search for an anti-technology terrorist.
By Laura Miller
February 19, 2008
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"Suite Française" made her a posthumous literary sensation. But newly published work raises the question: Was Némirovsky a Jewish anti-Semite?
By Allen Barra
February 6, 2008
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Witness the sentimental education of an Information Age Everyman -- and his salvation -- in Lydia Millet's beautiful new novel.
By Laura Miller
February 4, 2008
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Eschewing the cold perfection of the literary short story, Connie Willis gushes screwball comedies, clever farces and sharp satires on a par with those of George Saunders.
By Laura Miller
January 17, 2008
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From an imaginary history of Alaskan Jews to a compelling glimpse of the CIA, we pick the 10 most pleasurable reading experiences of the year.
By Laura Miller
December 12, 2007
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I'm a devoted Catholic and a huge Philip Pullman fan. Can a church that condemns him still embrace someone like me?
By Donna Freitas
December 7, 2007
"Thank You for All Things"
Diagnosing Chuck Klosterman 
Philip Roth's Jewish question
Sex, power and Laura Bush
The slush pile gave me writer's block!
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
Rushdie the romantic
Summer reads
In every dream home, a heartache
Ursula K. Le Guin celebrates early Rome
The witty detective 
Sins of the mothers
Guerrillas rise up in Nazi-occupied Britain
Richard Price's criminal intelligence
The man who ruined the novel
The brain bomber
Irène Némirovsky's life after death
The man who loved money
The raw stories
Salon Book Awards 2007
The accidental heretic
War Room
Broadsheet
How the World Works