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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
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Salon's Laura Miller on how the imaginative world of C.S. Lewis inspired her love of reading, as well as her career as a critic.
By Rebecca Traister
December 6, 2008
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This excerpt from "The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia" explores the magical connection between children and beasts.
By Laura Miller
December 6, 2008
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From Jim Crow laws to workplace discrimination, the history of race and the American courtroom is incendiary.
By Laura Miller
November 10, 2008
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"The books we love, love us back," wrote the great critic, editor and reader, who died Wednesday.
By Laura Miller
November 7, 2008
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When the grim reaper takes time off, morticians reel and chaos ensues in Jose Saramago's funny, ravishing "Death With Interruptions."
By Laura Miller
October 30, 2008
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Some politicians survive sex scandals. Why? They have perfected the public grovel.
By Laura Miller
October 15, 2008
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"Sea of Poppies," set in Calcutta, is a swashbuckling saga full of sadists, weaklings and tyrants -- and, thankfully, there are two more volumes to come.
By Laura Miller
October 14, 2008
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Two gripping memoirs explore the guilt and confusion left behind when a relative kills himself.
By Laura Miller
October 7, 2008
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Kidnapping, romance, comedy -- Kate Atkinson's delightfully inventive "When Will There Be Good News?" is much more than just another crime novel.
By Laura Miller
September 23, 2008
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A tribute to the great American novelist who left us all a little less alone.
By Laura Miller
September 14, 2008
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What turns an angry, alienated teen into a school shooter -- and what can we do it about it?
By Laura Miller
September 10, 2008
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How do we know what we know? A new book takes a long view of knowledge, from ancient oral traditions to the rise of universities and the Internet.
By Laura Miller
August 28, 2008
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Giordano Bruno has been called a martyr to science and an occultist, but a new book argues that the brilliant philosopher's unconventional behavior did him in.
By Laura Miller
August 25, 2008
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Meteorology meets conspiracy in Rivka Galchen's exquisite first novel about a man who mistakes his wife for an impostor.
By Laura Miller
August 13, 2008
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Preteen girls -- and their grown-up moms -- are sinking their teeth into Stephenie Meyer's gothic "Twilight" books by the millions. Move over, J.K. Rowling.
By Laura Miller
July 30, 2008
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The 9-year-old narrator of the heartbreaking "When We Were Romans" flees family chaos through literature.
By Laura Miller
July 24, 2008
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The newly appointed poet laureate aims to "prevent all bad poetry from being published during [her] reign."
By Laura Miller
July 17, 2008
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How sex, booze and heavy metal fit into the world of hip young Arabs today.
By Laura Miller
July 10, 2008
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The works that have influenced Obama illustrate that he would be the most literary president in recent memory -- and one likely to govern from the center.
By Laura Miller
July 7, 2008
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With its taproot in "Hamlet," this novel spins an engrossing tale of power struggles within a family of Wisconsin dog breeders.
By Laura Miller
June 27, 2008
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Past perfect: From a sinister Victorian thriller to the lush life of Louis XIV's mistress, these historical novels will take you back in time.
By Salon staff
June 16, 2008
"Serena"
The best nonfiction of 2008
Salon Book Awards 2008
A spy in the house of Narnia 
Talk to the animals
Are you white enough?
Remembering John Leonard 
"Death With Interruptions"
Forgive me, America, for I have sinned
"Sea of Poppies"
A suicide in the family
"When Will There Be Good News?"
When kids become mass murderers
The road to Wikipedia
The heretic
This is not my beautiful wife
Touched by a vampire
The history boy
All hail Kay Ryan
Here come the muhajababes!
Barack by the books
To breed or not to breed
Summer reads
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald