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Today's writers see affairs between younger women and older men as ambiguous transactions that sometimes lead to tragedy.
By Maria Russo
July 23, 2001
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Why has a cultural cottage industry sprung up around the most isolating of illnesses?
By Maria Russo
June 27, 2001
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The author of "You Just Don't Understand" turns her eagle eye on the stinging, maddening, sneaky ways that family members communicate.
By Maria Russo
June 26, 2001
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The author of "Changing Places" offers another delightful comedy of manners about academia, adultery and human consciousness.
By Maria Russo
June 22, 2001
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The bard of disintegrating marriages and deluded artists is enjoying a posthumous boom with a masterly story collection.
By Maria Russo
June 19, 2001
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Novelist Pat Barker talks about the nature of evil, children who kill and the similarities between writers and psychiatrists.
By Maria Russo
May 30, 2001
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The touching memoir of a 100-year-old woman -- forged by a young media commentator at the end of his rope.
By Maria Russo
May 21, 2001
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In the latest from the author of "Mohawk" and "Nobody's Fool," the residents of a small Maine town survive on simmering feuds, dirty backroom deals and plenty of comic relief.
By Maria Russo
May 21, 2001
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Get a bunch of bestselling authors together and what do they talk about? The agonies of success.
By Maria Russo
May 10, 2001
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Another cheeky, strangely moving tour de force from a master of experimental fiction.
By Maria Russo
April 19, 2001
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A suburban lad tells how he found guts, glory and a sustainable transit option in the renegade world of bike messengers.
By Maria Russo
April 10, 2001
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Nonviolent criminals go in and sadistic thugs come out, but with military spending down, America's small towns are hooked on prisons.
By Maria Russo
March 29, 2001
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By Maria Russo
March 22, 2001
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Conservative moralists, alarmed by the divorce rate, want us to
return to a Golden Age of Marriage. Too bad it never existed.
By Maria Russo
March 19, 2001
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Allegra Goodman's hilarious tale of promiscuous spiritual seeking, Pat Barker's tough-minded look at a child who murders, Nuala O'Faolain's searing novel of middle-aged sexuality and more.
By Salon's critics
March 15, 2001
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Calling a reviewer at home and putting a bounty on a critic are two ways unwise writers respond to negative reviews.
By Maria Russo
March 2, 2001
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The bestselling author returns to the epic, cross-generational storytelling that made her "The Joy Luck Club" an international hit.
By Maria Russo
February 21, 2001
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A grieving woman, an almost empty house and a very strange visitor add up to a metaphysical puzzle by this American master.
By Maria Russo
February 21, 2001
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Salon's book editors pick the 10 most paranoid tomes of all time.
By Laura Miller and Maria Russo
February 13, 2001
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"Fast Food Nation," a stomach-churning critique of the health and labor practices of the burger business, argues that Americans should change their dietary habits. Good luck.
By Maria Russo
February 8, 2001
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Some very heavy reading awaits those who will pick the winners of this year's National Book Critics' Circle Awards.
By Maria Russo
January 29, 2001
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Salon interviews Stanley Crouch about the future of literature under the new administration.
By Maria Russo
January 20, 2001
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A disfigured girl spins out the secrets of her family's disastrous history in this Booker Prize-nominated novel by a new Welsh writer.
By Maria Russo
January 11, 2001
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For the last-minute holiday shopper, Salon presents a sumptuous selection of gift books.
By Salon staff
December 20, 2000
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Ten books from 2000 we wished would never end.
By Laura Miller and Maria Russo
December 18, 2000
What Chandra Levy didn't know
Depression mania!
"Thinks" by David Lodge
Little devils
"My Little Blue Dress" by Bruno Maddox
"Empire Falls" by Richard Russo
Gloom at the top
"The Immortal Class" by Travis Hugh Culley
Psycho factories
What to read: March fiction
When authors attack
Unhappy meals
Worth a thousand words
Salon Book Awards
War Room
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald