Greil Marcus

I believe all the polls, and none of them I believe all the polls, and none of them

Will Americans do the impossible and elect a black president? The alternative is monstrous.
  • Salon Book Awards

    Our five-day book extravaganza kicks off with Erica Jong, Malcolm Gladwell, Curtis Sittenfeld and some of our other favorite authors weighing in on the best reads of 2006.
  • Unquiet Americans

    Greil Marcus searches for the prophetic voices of America and finds them in Abraham Lincoln, David Lynch and Riot Grrrl bands of the '90s.
  • The American dream

    The real story of America is not about power, money or the march of armies. It is about a dream of liberty and justice and independence -- a dream that still comes true every day.
  • Love is red, death is blue

    Greil Marcus and Sean Wilentz discuss their amazing new anthology of writing about the American ballad -- and wonder whether Republicans sing better songs of passion and murder than Democrats do.
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