http://dir.salon.com/topics/laura_miller/?source=rss&aim=laura_miller en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST By Laura Miller Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/01/05/Mark_bittman/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/01/05/Mark_bittman/index.html?source=rss 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 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2008/12/16/rash/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2008/12/16/rash/index.html?source=rss 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. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/comment/2008/12/09/bookawards_nonfiction/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/comment/2008/12/09/bookawards_nonfiction/index.html?source=rss Laura Miller on her favorite reads of the year -- books about movies, detectives, the war on terror. By Laura Miller Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/awards/2008/12/08/2008/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/awards/2008/12/08/2008/index.html?source=rss Our picks for the 10 most pleasurable fiction and nonfiction reading experiences of the year. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/comment/2008/12/08/bookawards_fiction/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/comment/2008/12/08/bookawards_fiction/index.html?source=rss Laura Miller on the best reads of the year and why fiction is a great way to explore who we really are. By Rebecca Traister Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/12/06/narnia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/12/06/narnia/index.html?source=rss 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 Laura Miller Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/excerpt/2008/12/06/laura_miller/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/excerpt/2008/12/06/laura_miller/index.html?source=rss This excerpt from "The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia" explores the magical connection between children and beasts. By Laura Miller Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/11/10/race_trial/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/11/10/race_trial/index.html?source=rss From Jim Crow laws to workplace discrimination, the history of race and the American courtroom is incendiary. By Laura Miller Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/11/07/john_leonard/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/11/07/john_leonard/index.html?source=rss "The books we love, love us back," wrote the great critic, editor and reader, who died Wednesday. By Laura Miller Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2008/10/30/saramago/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2008/10/30/saramago/index.html?source=rss When the grim reaper takes time off, morticians reel and chaos ensues in Jose Saramago's funny, ravishing "Death With Interruptions." By Laura Miller Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/10/15/grovel/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/10/15/grovel/index.html?source=rss Some politicians survive sex scandals. Why? They have perfected the public grovel. By Laura Miller Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2008/10/14/ghosh/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2008/10/14/ghosh/index.html?source=rss "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 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/10/07/suicide/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/10/07/suicide/index.html?source=rss Two gripping memoirs explore the guilt and confusion left behind when a relative kills himself. By Laura Miller Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2008/09/23/atkinson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2008/09/23/atkinson/index.html?source=rss 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 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/09/14/david_foster_wallace/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/09/14/david_foster_wallace/index.html?source=rss A tribute to the great American novelist who left us all a little less alone. By Laura Miller Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/09/10/school_shooting/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/09/10/school_shooting/index.html?source=rss What turns an angry, alienated teen into a school shooter -- and what can we do it about it? By Laura Miller Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/08/28/knowledge/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/08/28/knowledge/index.html?source=rss 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 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/08/25/bruno/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/08/25/bruno/index.html?source=rss 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 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/08/13/galchen/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/08/13/galchen/index.html?source=rss Meteorology meets conspiracy in Rivka Galchen's exquisite first novel about a man who mistakes his wife for an impostor. By Laura Miller Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/07/30/Twilight/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/07/30/Twilight/index.html?source=rss 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 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/07/24/matthew_kneale/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/07/24/matthew_kneale/index.html?source=rss The 9-year-old narrator of the heartbreaking "When We Were Romans" flees family chaos through literature. By Laura Miller Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/07/17/kay_ryan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/07/17/kay_ryan/index.html?source=rss The newly appointed poet laureate aims to "prevent all bad poetry from being published during [her] reign." By Laura Miller Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/07/10/young_islam/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/07/10/young_islam/index.html?source=rss How sex, booze and heavy metal fit into the world of hip young Arabs today. By Laura Miller Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/07/07/obama_books/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/07/07/obama_books/index.html?source=rss 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 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/06/27/wroblewski/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/06/27/wroblewski/index.html?source=rss With its taproot in "Hamlet," this novel spins an engrossing tale of power struggles within a family of Wisconsin dog breeders.