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  • The accidental heretic

    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

  • The sound of strangers

    A hero with superhuman hearing sets out to rescue a silent child in Peter Hoeg's compelling new mystery.
    By Heather Havrilesky November 28, 2007

  • How the West was lost

    In a movie season crowded with westerns, "True Grit" -- the great, unsung novel of the American frontier -- celebrates its 40th anniversary.
    By Allen Barra November 27, 2007

  • The strangers next door

    A modern tale of gentrification pits black working-class folk against young white professionals pining for a fixer-upper.
    By Laura Miller November 12, 2007

  • Remembering Norman Mailer through his books

    This entry from "The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors" takes us on a tour of his best, his worst and his bravest.
    By A.O. Scott November 10, 2007

  • How hard is it to write honestly about war?

    A haunting, minimalist portrait of modern warfare by former soldier Matthew Eck.
    By Stephen Elliott October 22, 2007

  • Salon's guide to Nobel winner Doris Lessing

    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

  • The reluctant feminist

    Nobel-winner Doris Lessing has shrugged off feminist interpretations of her work -- with good reason.
    By Carol Lloyd October 12, 2007

  • The intruder

    A sexy Croatian college student disrupts the lives of a family of well-meaning New York liberals in Valerie Martin's "Trespass."
    By Laura Miller October 1, 2007

  • War without end

    Best known for his tales of losers, thieves and addicts, Denis Johnson takes on the Vietnam War in his daring new novel, "Tree of Smoke."
    By Laura Miller September 17, 2007

  • "Engleby"

    The narrator of Sebastian Faulks' enthralling new novel is a witty, unreliable oddball -- but is he a murderer?
    By Laura Miller September 7, 2007

  • Life beyond the lens

    New novels frame two of photography's most compelling legends, Edward Curtis and Edward Steichen.
    By Sarah Karnasiewicz August 2, 2007

  • "The Headmaster Ritual"

    Move over, "Prep" and "Harry Potter" -- Taylor Antrim has written the great American (or is that Korean-American?) boarding school novel.
    By Ed Park August 1, 2007

  • Mystery in black and white

    Stephen L. Carter helped put African-American mysteries on the map with his 2002 debut novel. But his latest thriller, "New England White," seems lost.
    By Alexis Soloski July 19, 2007

  • Harry Potter and the prediction pool

    Who will survive "The Deathly Hallows"? Elizabeth Hand, Kelly Link, Steve Almond -- and Stephen Amidon's children -- join Salon staff and place their bets.
    By Thomas Rogers and Matthew Fishbane July 6, 2007

  • "On Chesil Beach"

    Two virgins face down fear and disgust on their wedding night in Ian McEwan's slender new novel.
    By Ed Park June 5, 2007

  • Potterpalooza

    For the Quidditch players, wizard rockers and would-be witches who gathered at a New Orleans Harry Potter convention, this is the dawning of their summer of love -- and loss.
    By Rebecca Traister June 1, 2007

  • "After Dark"

    In Haruki Murakami's cinematic new novel, night owls wander the streets of Tokyo, unaware of the web of coincidences that connects them.
    By Laura Miller May 30, 2007

  • The unbearable rightness of fiction

    In his forceful new book, Milan Kundera argues that we need the novel to understand the "ineluctable defeat called life."
    By Gary Kamiya March 6, 2007

  • I don't feel like writing. Does that mean I'm not a writer?

    Every time I start to work on my second novel, an enormous laziness descends upon me.
    By Cary Tennis February 26, 2007

  • "Travels in the Scriptorium"

    When Paul Auster is at his best he's like a brilliant magician. When he's not -- as with his latest -- it's as if he's sawing away without a woman in the box.
    By Allen Barra February 7, 2007

  • "Sacred Games"

    Vikram Chandra's exquisite cops and robbers tale breaks the mold of the contemporary Indian novel, bringing Mumbai -- in all its chaos -- gloriously to life.
    By Laura Miller February 5, 2007

  • Destination: Brazil

    After Carnival, soccer and samba, go deeper into this South American nation via its seductive novels and gritty true-life stories.
    By Anderson Tepper January 30, 2007

  • "The End of Mr. Y"

    Scarlett Thomas' novel dabbles in Derrida and Darwin, but her story of a screwed-up grad student obsessed with a cursed book never gets bogged down.
    By Laura Miller January 18, 2007

  • Best fiction of 2006

    This year, stories from five extraordinary writers about Africa, 9/11's aftermath and the Civil War captivated us the most.
    By Laura Miller and Hillary Frey December 13, 2006
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