Literature

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  • The mysteries of Bill Clinton

    Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez compares the president's fate to that of Hester Prynne.
    By Gabriel Garcma Marquez January 30, 1999

  • The King of death

    Horrormeister Stephen King has turned mankind's oldest fear into an excruciatingly addictive body of work. For those new to the master's nightmare world, Andrew O'Hehir recommends five books.
    By Andrew O'Hehir September 24, 1998

  • Introducing the Garner Report

    Salon introduces the Garner Report, a monthly roundup of new books
    By Dwight Garner September 4, 1998

  • A Yankee way of knowledge

    Carlos Castaneda, whoever he was, is dead -- whatever that is.
    By Ian Shoales June 24, 1998

  • The Good Father

    Ted Hughes' 'Birthday Letters' makes it clear, once and for all, whom his silence has been protecting all these years -- his children.
    By Kate Moses February 6, 1998

  • Waiting for Fidel

    Waiting for Fidel: An excerpt from Christopher Hunt's revealing new book about Cuba.
    By Christopher Hunt January 22, 1998

  • The Salon Interview: Gore Vidal

    An interview with Gore Vidal by Chris Haines.
    By Chris Haines January 14, 1998

  • The man who loved books in Turkey

    For Lisa Michaels, an encounter with a book-starved shopkeeper in Turkey provides a new perspective on literary packing.
    By Lisa Michaels December 3, 1997

  • The art of life

    Biographer Jay Parini on his favorite biographies, about such writers as James Joyce, Henry James, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope and Ralph Waldo Emerson
    By Jay Parini November 19, 1997

  • Cents and sensibility

    By Gary Kamiya. A literary history of money, from the Bible to 'The Great Gatsby.'
    By Gary Kamiya October 31, 1997

  • How Zurich invented the modern world

    A distinguished Mexican novelist reflects on Thomas Mann, Zurich and the imagination of Europe.
    By Carlos Fuentes September 30, 1997

  • London, England

    There's more to London than the Savoy and the Tate -- like erotic exhibitions, cappuccino shops and Dickens' commode.
    By Mary Elizabeth Williams August 5, 1997

  • Mountain man

    A profile of Charles Frazier, author of "Cold Mountain."
    By Laura Miller July 9, 1997

  • Tina's Time

    Has Tina Brown rescued the New Yorker -- or ruined it?
    By Dwight Garner June 26, 1997

  • Mary Karr

    Salon magazine: An interview with Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club about memoirs, Texas, childhood, Kathryn Harrison, The Kiss, child abuse, writing, literature, autobiography. By Dwight Garner
    By Dwight Garner May 21, 1997

  • twilight of the old goats

    Salon magazine: Mailer, Roth and Bellow refuse to go quietly. By D.T. Max
    By D.T. Max May 16, 1997

  • The Salon Interview: Fernanda Eberstadt

    An interview with novelist Fernanda Eberstadt, author of When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth, Isaac and his Devils, and "Low Tide."
    By Cynthia Joyce May 5, 1997

  • Didion as Diva

    Why gay men worship Joan Didion, the brittle queen of neurasthenic literature.
    By Bill Hayes April 7, 1997

  • Novelists 'R' Us

    Salon Magazine for April 1, 1997: Novelists 'R' Us by Laura Miller
    By Laura Miller April 1, 1997
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