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Salon recommends four addictive novels to add intrigue and treachery to your beach book list.
By Laura Miller
June 2, 2009
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Diamonds are a boy's best friend in this crackling novel of scams, sex and druggy escapades in the jewel trade.
By Laura Miller
May 26, 2009
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Why do we often care more about imaginary characters than real people? A new book suggests that fiction is crucial to our survival as a species.
By Laura Miller
May 18, 2009
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One of the series' deepest mysteries is revealed and intriguing new loopholes open up in the thrilling season finale.
By Laura Miller
May 14, 2009
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This astonishing novel by the author of "Tipping the Velvet" gives the traditional ghost story a creepy twist -- and a dose of class resentment.
By Laura Miller
May 5, 2009
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Twitter and e-mail aren't making us stupider, but they are making us more distracted. A new book explains why learning to focus is the key to living better.
By Laura Miller
April 29, 2009
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Love among the iPods: A divorced TV director is content to be left alone with his old songs -- until he meets a new singer.
By Laura Miller
April 14, 2009
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Is Helen Gurley Brown's legacy more than just sex quizzes and cleavage? A new biography of Cosmo's founder proclaims her a pioneer of today's raunchy, unapologetic brand of feminism.
By Laura Miller
April 12, 2009
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Why do people worship religious relics, and why is the number of trainee exorcists rising? Two new books suggest that our desire to believe in magical forces remains irresistible.
By Laura Miller
March 27, 2009
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America's favorite polygamist drama ends its third season with a cosmic revelation, startling violence and an ultra-creepy kiss.
By Laura Miller
March 23, 2009
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Will the cylons triumph? Will Baltar and Roslin survive? All these answers and more as the celebrated science-fiction epic comes to an end.
By Laura Miller
March 21, 2009
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The cursed and the dead haunt this elegantly gothic tale, tracing the line between the scientific and the paranormal.
By Laura Miller
March 16, 2009
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The members of a radical leftist family lose their patriarch and are forced to cope with disillusionment and secrets in Zoe Heller's sharply etched new novel.
By Laura Miller
March 12, 2009
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Ex-Petraeus advisor David Kilcullen warns that if Western forces aren't willing to stick around in Iraq and Afghanistan, extremists will continue turning the locals into weapons.
By Laura Miller
March 11, 2009
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This dark literary thriller -- written under Ruth Rendell's pen name -- masterfully folds adultery, kidnapping and lies into a tale of psychological suspense.
By Laura Miller
March 6, 2009
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Female authors hold their own on the bestseller lists, but Elaine Showalter's provocative new history wonders why they get so little respect.
By Laura Miller
February 24, 2009
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You only die once. Why not take tips from great philosophers on how to do it well?
By Laura Miller
February 16, 2009
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War, suicide and quasi-incestuous desire swirl through "Lark and Termite," Jayne Anne Phillips' evocative novel of Southern revelations.
By Laura Miller
January 28, 2009
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Is it really so terrible to grow old? Two new books explore what we can (and can't) learn from the elderly.
By Laura Miller
January 23, 2009
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America is a country in recovery. Two new books illustrate the paradoxes and contradictions in our current notions of addiction.
By Laura Miller
January 14, 2009
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Mark Bittman's revolutionary "Food Matters" is both a cookbook and a manifesto that shows us how to eat better -- and save the planet.
By Laura Miller
January 5, 2009
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A lumber baron, a ruthless sexpot and a one-handed henchman star in this wildly entertaining tale of passion, murder and deforestation set in Depression-era North Carolina.
By Laura Miller
December 16, 2008
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Laura Miller on her favorite reads of the year -- books about movies, detectives, the war on terror.
December 9, 2008
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Our picks for the 10 most pleasurable fiction and nonfiction reading experiences of the year.
By Laura Miller
December 8, 2008
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Laura Miller on the best reads of the year and why fiction is a great way to explore who we really are.
December 8, 2008
Summer reading: Killer thrillers
Must Read: "How to Sell"
The evolutionary argument for Dr. Seuss
Finale wrap-up: "Lost"
"The Little Stranger"
Why can't we concentrate?
"The Song Is You"
The woman who made it good to be bad 
Eat your saints, purge your demons
Finale wrap-up: "Big Love"
Goodbye, "Galactica"
"The Seance"
"The Believers"
Meet the accidental guerrillas
"The Birthday Present"
Why can't a woman write the Great American Novel?
Let death change your life
"Lark and Termite"
Don't fear the reaper
Alcoholics, sexaholics, shopaholics
How to live what Michael Pollan preaches 
"Serena"
The best nonfiction of 2008
Salon Book Awards 2008
GigaOM Network
Broadsheet
War Room