http://dir.salon.com/topics/fiction/?source=rss&aim=fiction en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT By James Hannaham Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2008/09/30/kring/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2008/09/30/kring/index.html?source=rss A messed-up Midwestern family grapples with buried secrets in Sandra's Kring's gripping saga "Thank You for All Things." By Sarah Hepola Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/09/24/klosterman/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/09/24/klosterman/index.html?source=rss 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 Louis Bayard Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/09/16/roth/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/09/16/roth/index.html?source=rss In his affecting new book, Roth's young hero abandons his Jewish upbringing for life in small town Ohio. By Rebecca Traister Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/09/08/sittenfeld_q_a/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/09/08/sittenfeld_q_a/index.html?source=rss "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 Cary Tennis Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/08/20/slush_pile/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/08/20/slush_pile/index.html?source=rss Everything was fine until I started reading unsolicited manuscripts. By Laura Miller Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/08/13/galchen/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/08/13/galchen/index.html?source=rss Meteorology meets conspiracy in Rivka Galchen's exquisite first novel about a man who mistakes his wife for an impostor. By Laura Miller Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/07/24/matthew_kneale/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/07/24/matthew_kneale/index.html?source=rss The 9-year-old narrator of the heartbreaking "When We Were Romans" flees family chaos through literature. By Louis Bayard Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/07/22/james_wood/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/07/22/james_wood/index.html?source=rss The fiercely talented critic takes us on an illuminating tour of fiction -- but there's a hole in his plot. By Laura Miller Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/06/27/wroblewski/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/06/27/wroblewski/index.html?source=rss With its taproot in "Hamlet," this novel spins an engrossing tale of power struggles within a family of Wisconsin dog breeders. By Allen Barra Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/06/20/sebastian_barry/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/06/20/sebastian_barry/index.html?source=rss 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 Laura Miller Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/06/13/rushdie/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/06/13/rushdie/index.html?source=rss 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 Salon staff Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/06/02/summer_reads2/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/06/02/summer_reads2/index.html?source=rss 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 Rebecca Traister Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/05/28/janelle_brown/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/05/28/janelle_brown/index.html?source=rss 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 Laura Miller Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/05/01/LeGuin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/05/01/LeGuin/index.html?source=rss 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 Louis Bayard Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/04/18/fowler/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/04/18/fowler/index.html?source=rss 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 Laura Miller Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/04/10/jonathan_coe/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/04/10/jonathan_coe/index.html?source=rss Jonathan Coe's graceful new novel is the tale of daughters destined to repeat the failures of their mothers. By Laura Miller Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/03/18/owen_sheers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/03/18/owen_sheers/index.html?source=rss A haunting new alternative history imagines an invading German army living alongside the natives in rural Wales. By Richard B. Woodward Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/03/10/richard_price/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/03/10/richard_price/index.html?source=rss "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 Stephen Marche Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/03/06/robbe_grillet/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/03/06/robbe_grillet/index.html?source=rss Alain Robbe-Grillet turned the masses against inventive fiction. Now that he's dead, will experimental writing make a comeback? By Laura Miller Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/02/19/choi/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/02/19/choi/index.html?source=rss An innocent math professor gets caught up in the search for an anti-technology terrorist. By Allen Barra Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/02/06/nemirovsky/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/02/06/nemirovsky/index.html?source=rss "Suite Française" made her a posthumous literary sensation. But newly published work raises the question: Was Némirovsky a Jewish anti-Semite? By Laura Miller Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/02/04/millet/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/02/04/millet/index.html?source=rss Witness the sentimental education of an Information Age Everyman -- and his salvation -- in Lydia Millet's beautiful new novel. By Laura Miller Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/01/17/willis/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/01/17/willis/index.html?source=rss 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 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/awards/2007/12/12/best_books/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/awards/2007/12/12/best_books/index.html?source=rss 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 Donna Freitas Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2007/12/07/freitas/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2007/12/07/freitas/index.html?source=rss I'm a devoted Catholic and a huge Philip Pullman fan. Can a church that condemns him still embrace someone like me?