http://dir.salon.com/topics/maria_russo/?source=rss&aim=maria_russo en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT By Maria Russo Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/07/23/young_old/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/07/23/young_old/index.html?source=rss Today's writers see affairs between younger women and older men as ambiguous transactions that sometimes lead to tragedy. By Maria Russo Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/06/27/depression/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/06/27/depression/index.html?source=rss Why has a cultural cottage industry sprung up around the most isolating of illnesses? By Maria Russo Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/06/26/tannen/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/06/26/tannen/index.html?source=rss 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 Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/06/22/lodge/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/06/22/lodge/index.html?source=rss The author of "Changing Places" offers another delightful comedy of manners about academia, adultery and human consciousness. By Maria Russo Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/06/19/yates/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/06/19/yates/index.html?source=rss The bard of disintegrating marriages and deluded artists is enjoying a posthumous boom with a masterly story collection. By Maria Russo Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2001/05/30/barker/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2001/05/30/barker/index.html?source=rss Novelist Pat Barker talks about the nature of evil, children who kill and the similarities between writers and psychiatrists. By Maria Russo Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/05/21/maddox/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/05/21/maddox/index.html?source=rss The touching memoir of a 100-year-old woman -- forged by a young media commentator at the end of his rope. By Maria Russo Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/05/21/russo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/05/21/russo/index.html?source=rss 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 Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/05/10/gloom/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/05/10/gloom/index.html?source=rss Get a bunch of bestselling authors together and what do they talk about? The agonies of success. By Maria Russo Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/04/19/markson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/04/19/markson/index.html?source=rss Another cheeky, strangely moving tour de force from a master of experimental fiction. By Maria Russo Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/04/10/culley/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/04/10/culley/index.html?source=rss A suburban lad tells how he found guts, glory and a sustainable transit option in the renegade world of bike messengers. By Maria Russo Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/03/29/hallinan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/03/29/hallinan/index.html?source=rss Nonviolent criminals go in and sadistic thugs come out, but with military spending down, America's small towns are hooked on prisons. Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/letters/2001/03/22/marriage/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/letters/2001/03/22/marriage/index.html?source=rss By Maria Russo By Maria Russo Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/03/19/divorce/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/03/19/divorce/index.html?source=rss Conservative moralists, alarmed by the divorce rate, want us to return to a Golden Age of Marriage. Too bad it never existed. By Salon's critics Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/03/15/march_fiction/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/03/15/march_fiction/index.html?source=rss 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 Maria Russo Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/03/02/authors/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/03/02/authors/index.html?source=rss Calling a reviewer at home and putting a bounty on a critic are two ways unwise writers respond to negative reviews. By Maria Russo Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/02/21/tan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/02/21/tan/index.html?source=rss The bestselling author returns to the epic, cross-generational storytelling that made her "The Joy Luck Club" an international hit. By Maria Russo Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/02/21/delillo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/02/21/delillo/index.html?source=rss A grieving woman, an almost empty house and a very strange visitor add up to a metaphysical puzzle by this American master. By Laura Miller and Maria Russo Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2001/02/13/books_list/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2001/02/13/books_list/index.html?source=rss Salon's book editors pick the 10 most paranoid tomes of all time. By Maria Russo Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/02/08/schlosser/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/02/08/schlosser/index.html?source=rss "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 Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/log/2001/01/29/nbcc/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/log/2001/01/29/nbcc/index.html?source=rss Some very heavy reading awaits those who will pick the winners of this year's National Book Critics' Circle Awards. By Maria Russo Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/log/2001/01/20/crouch/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/log/2001/01/20/crouch/index.html?source=rss Salon interviews Stanley Crouch about the future of literature under the new administration. By Maria Russo Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/01/11/azzopardi/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/01/11/azzopardi/index.html?source=rss 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 Salon staff Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/12/20/gift/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/12/20/gift/index.html?source=rss For the last-minute holiday shopper, Salon presents a sumptuous selection of gift books. By Laura Miller and Maria Russo Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/12/18/bookawards/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/12/18/bookawards/index.html?source=rss Ten books from 2000 we wished would never end.