The true story of a woman whose enormous gift to science was shamefully repaid
By Laura Miller Feb 7, 2010
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Amazon's behind-the-scenes battle with publishers shows how the iPad is already making its mark
By Laura Miller
February 1, 2010
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Darwin, Warhol and Proust -- what history's greatest worrywarts got out of being "sick"
By Laura Miller
January 31, 2010
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What the creator of Holden Caulfield taught a nation of readers and writers
By Laura Miller
January 28, 2010
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Why promoting books with movie-style trailers is a silly idea
By Laura Miller
January 26, 2010
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John Lanchester's new book is the most fun you'll ever have learning about worldwide economic collapse
By Laura Miller
January 24, 2010
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Great novelist, chick-lit pioneer, vampire. Will the real Miss Austen please stand up?
By Laura Miller
January 20, 2010
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Reason and faith battle it out in the story of a celebrity philosopher and his tumultuous past
By Laura Miller
January 17, 2010
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Patti Smith's memoir of her youth with Robert Mapplethorpe testifies to a rare and ferocious innocence
By Laura Miller
January 10, 2010
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Why you should get out of your literary comfort zone this year
By Laura Miller
January 5, 2010
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A rare and fascinating glimpse of the lives of ordinary North Koreans
By Laura Miller
January 3, 2010
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Two spellbinding novels -- from Joshua Ferris and Jonathan Dee -- scrutinize the weaknesses of the ruling class
By Laura Miller
December 28, 2009
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Too many authors shun this humble form of punctuation
By Laura Miller
December 22, 2009
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An extraordinary new memoir by a college jock whose brain began to bleed
By Laura Miller
December 20, 2009
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Historical fiction has never given the longest-reigning monarch in English history her due
By Laura Miller
December 15, 2009
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A new comic romps through one of philosophy's greatest debates
By Laura Miller
December 13, 2009
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A tribute to the fact and fiction we wouldn't stop talking about in the 2000s
By Laura Miller
December 9, 2009
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Laura Miller and others talk about the year's best books on NPR
By Laura Miller
December 9, 2009
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Sex, ghosts and infant monkeys featured in the finest storytelling of the year
By Laura Miller
December 8, 2009
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True stories about science, art, crime and American history
By Laura Miller
December 7, 2009
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We pick the best book of the week, every week
By Laura Miller
December 6, 2009
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A "revised" edition of Darwin's "The Origin of Species" turns college campuses into three-ring circuses
By Laura Miller
November 23, 2009
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"Tinsel" investigates the allure -- and demented poignancy -- of America's holiday obsession
By Laura Miller
November 22, 2009
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Want to win some props for your masterpiece? We can do that -- for a price
By Laura Miller
November 17, 2009
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A new book says: Fiction is dead, long live the age of autobiography
By Laura Miller
November 15, 2009
"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks"
Kindle killer
"The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives"
J.D. Salinger: Voice of America
Never coming to a screen near you
"I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay"
The battle for Jane Austen
The atheist's dilemma
The last bohemian
Read a book you think you'll hate in 2010
Inside the hermit kingdom
The secret lives of brokers and lawyers
All I want for Christmas is quotation marks
The freshman had a stroke
Queen Victoria to literature: Where is the love?
Logic made fun
The best books of the decade
The best fiction of 2009
The best nonfiction books of 2009
Introducing: What to Read
Creationism vs. atheism: It's on!
Christmas insanity unwrapped
Vanity book awards
How memoirs took over the literary world
GigaOM Network
War Room
Broadsheet