http://dir.salon.com/topics/literature/?source=rss&aim=literature en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT By Laura Miller Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/05/18/evocriticism/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/05/18/evocriticism/index.html?source=rss 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 Amy Benfer Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/10/08/herta_muller/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/10/08/herta_muller/index.html?source=rss Meet Herta Mueller, the best German writer you've never heard of ... until now By Cary Tennis Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/08/26/bad_novel/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/08/26/bad_novel/index.html?source=rss She wants me to comment -- but what can I say without ending our friendship? By Alison Buckholtz Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/04/11/iraq/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/04/11/iraq/index.html?source=rss Books had always helped me in a crisis. But could I find one that explained to my kids why their father was in Iraq? Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/big_think/2008/01/28/bt_collins/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/big_think/2008/01/28/bt_collins/index.html?source=rss Poet Billy Collins reflects on teaching, reading and writing poetry. By Amy Benfer Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/09/02/julie_myerson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/09/02/julie_myerson/index.html?source=rss The sordid back story of Julia Myerson's new memoir, "The Lost Child," should give every parenting writer pause By Amanda Fortini Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/21/eat_pray_vacillate/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/21/eat_pray_vacillate/index.html?source=rss Author Elizabeth Gilbert becomes the latest female literary figure to write about her ambivalence toward marriage By Frieda Klotz Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/07/30/new_york_writers_salon_goes_online/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/07/30/new_york_writers_salon_goes_online/index.html?source=rss The founder of a literary networking site for women talks about Facebook feminism and the peril of pink covers By Cary Tennis Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/07/20/poetic_moment/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/07/20/poetic_moment/index.html?source=rss This longing comes over me, exciting but unpleasant: Is it a memory? What is it called? By Abigail Kramer Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/05/01/carol_duffy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/05/01/carol_duffy/index.html?source=rss Once called a "poetess" by her male colleagues, Carol Ann Duffy becomes the first woman to hold the prestigious post. By Amy Benfer Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2008/12/18/sontag/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2008/12/18/sontag/index.html?source=rss Susan Sontag's journals mean something different to just about everyone. By Cary Tennis Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/09/30/distracted_writer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/09/30/distracted_writer/index.html?source=rss Every time I start to do my assignment, I find myself surfing the Web instead! By Cary Tennis Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/08/20/slush_pile/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/08/20/slush_pile/index.html?source=rss Everything was fine until I started reading unsolicited manuscripts. By Gary Kamiya Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2007/11/20/beowulf/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2007/11/20/beowulf/index.html?source=rss One is a living universe, the other a 3-D voyage to schlockville. A great essay by Tolkien helps us understand why. By Cary Tennis Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/11/02/addicted_to_fanfiction/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/11/02/addicted_to_fanfiction/index.html?source=rss Every moment I'm alone, I'm secretly reading the stories, the forums, the recommendations. I can't stop! By Rebecca Traister Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/06/27/jane_austen/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/06/27/jane_austen/index.html?source=rss A new wave of Austen-mania revolves around ballgowns, romance and Colin Firth's sexy breeches. But what would Jane herself say about this fantasy of the perfect man? By Allen Barra Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2006/09/07/algren/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2006/09/07/algren/index.html?source=rss The 1956 classic "A Walk on the Wild Side" captured the Crescent City as we'll never see it again -- seedy, brutal, alive. By Matt Steinglass Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/04/20/soyinka/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/04/20/soyinka/index.html?source=rss The Nigerian Nobel laureate's weird memoir recalls a life of protest, exile -- and farcical political interventions. By Stephen Amidon Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/04/15/brown/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/04/15/brown/index.html?source=rss A new biography depicts Madame Bovary's creator as a sexual adventurer who spent his life at war with his bourgeois self. By Allen Barra Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/12/22/nabokov/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/12/22/nabokov/index.html?source=rss Fifty years after its publication, and 20 after my first reading, Nabokov's masterpiece is still dangerous -- but not for the reasons you might think. By Rebecca Traister Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/11/01/chick_lit/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/11/01/chick_lit/index.html?source=rss Chick lit is often dissed for being trashy and dumb. Back off! These novels of fashion and family are recording women's history. By Steve Almond Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/10/13/blog/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/10/13/blog/index.html?source=rss My cyber-nemesis had been trashing me for months. Then we met, and I had a chance to take a terrible revenge. By Laura Miller Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2005/10/08/gaiman_clarke/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2005/10/08/gaiman_clarke/index.html?source=rss Bestselling writers Neil Gaiman and Susanna Clarke talk with Salon about fairies, folk tales and fighting the tyranny of realism. By Allen Barra Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/10/04/wilson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/10/04/wilson/index.html?source=rss Edmund Wilson had four wives, dozens of affairs, a drinking problem -- and the sharpest critical mind of his generation. By Allen Barra Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/08/27/borges/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/08/27/borges/index.html?source=rss Jorge Luis Borges went from being an unknown middle-aged librarian to one of the 20th century's most influential writers. So why do so few people read him now?