Laura Miller

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Hospital, USA
This fascinating portrait of a Brooklyn, N.Y., hospital is about much more than white coats and beeping consoles -- it's 21st-century America in a microcosm.
Ursula K. Le Guin celebrates early Rome
The unlikely heroine of "Lavinia" leaps out of the Aeneid and brings an ancient culture -- deeply bound by "duty, order and justice" -- to life.
Critics' Picks
Salon's culture gurus tip you off to their favorite things this week: A knockout '70s R&B singer, a ravishing anime, the best season of "Survivor" in years.
Criminals of the world, unite and take over
In "McMafia," author Misha Glenny takes us on a startling tour of the new international underworld, documenting the hidden costs of an unregulated global free market.
Sins of the mothers
Jonathan Coe's graceful new novel is the tale of daughters destined to repeat the failures of their mothers.
Terror and loathing
Martin Amis may not know much about Islam and 9/11, but he knows what he hates.
What is your literary deal breaker?
Considering the books that could tank a relationship.
Panic in the pages
Did comic books -- and the firestorm they touched off in the 1950s -- do more than rock 'n' roll to create the generation gap?
Guerrillas rise up in Nazi-occupied Britain
A haunting new alternative history imagines an invading German army living alongside the natives in rural Wales.
The rise of the superclass
Are Bill Clinton, Rupert Murdoch, the pope and Osama bin Laden part of a new global power elite that may make traditional governments obsolete?
Stop the presses!
The suspenseful BBC miniseries "State of Play," about a band of ruthless newspaper reporters, is as rigorously demanding as "The Wire."
The unlikeliest gangbanger
A Grateful Dead-loving sociology student wormed his way into a Chicago gang -- and then stuck around to write a compelling portrait of life in the projects.
The brain bomber
An innocent math professor gets caught up in the search for an anti-technology terrorist.
America closes the book on intelligence
Our country is barely smarter than a fifth grader -- no wonder it's drowning in religious fundamentalism and political ideologues on both sides, argues Susan Jacoby.
The man who loved money
Witness the sentimental education of an Information Age Everyman -- and his salvation -- in Lydia Millet's beautiful new novel.
The battle of the literary endorsements
Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison have both gone public with their presidential picks. What do their overwrought odes tell us about the candidates they favor?
Bad theater, good TV
Not sure what to watch during the writers' strike? The giddy backstage sendup "Slings and Arrows" shoots for the sublime.
The big secret about secret societies
Step right up, folks, and read the one true guide to Western and Eastern esoteric societies from the Freemasons to the Rosicrucians. Relics, totems and secret handshakes revealed!
The raw stories
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.
Dirty, sexy opera
In Germany, Wagner is worshiped like a god. His scheming, squabbling descendants are another story.
The case of the gassy ghost
Nicola Barker's smart, rude novel "Darkmans" is part Zadie Smith and part David Foster Wallace -- with just a dash of Stephen King.
America's first Me Generation
Did Emerson and the American transcendentalists transform society or merely sow the seeds of American individualism?
2007 Book Awards: Two on Vietnam
Laura Miller discusses works about the Vietnam War.
2007 Book Awards: Literary marriages
Laura Miller looks at works about the way writers love, marry and live as couples.
The strangers next door
A modern tale of gentrification pits black working-class folk against young white professionals pining for a fixer-upper.
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