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Ursula K. Le Guin celebrates early Rome: The unlikely heroine of "Lavinia" leaps out of the Aeneid and brings an ancient culture -- deeply bound by "duty, order and justice" -- to life.; By Laura Miller May 1, 2008
The witty detective: Karen Joy Fowler's follow-up to bestseller "The Jane Austen Book Club" is a detective novel about a mystery writer whose tales come back to haunt her.; By Louis Bayard Apr 18, 2008
Sins of the mothers: Jonathan Coe's graceful new novel is the tale of daughters destined to repeat the failures of their mothers.; By Laura Miller Apr 10, 2008
Guerrillas rise up in Nazi-occupied Britain: A haunting new alternative history imagines an invading German army living alongside the natives in rural Wales.; By Laura Miller Mar 18, 2008
Richard Price's criminal intelligence: "Lush Life," Price's latest tour of down-low urban America, is an acute portrait of the Darwinian adaptations required to survive in our city jungles.; By Richard B. Woodward Mar 10, 2008
The man who ruined the novel: Alain Robbe-Grillet turned the masses against inventive fiction. Now that he's dead, will experimental writing make a comeback?; By Stephen Marche Mar 6, 2008
The brain bomber: An innocent math professor gets caught up in the search for an anti-technology terrorist.; By Laura Miller Feb 19, 2008
Irène Némirovsky's life after death: "Suite Française" made her a posthumous literary sensation. But newly published work raises the question: Was Némirovsky a Jewish anti-Semite?; By Allen Barra Feb 6, 2008
The man who loved money: Witness the sentimental education of an Information Age Everyman -- and his salvation -- in Lydia Millet's beautiful new novel.; By Laura Miller Feb 4, 2008
The sound of strangers: A hero with superhuman hearing sets out to rescue a silent child in Peter Hoeg's compelling new mystery.; By Heather Havrilesky Nov 28, 2007
How the West was lost: In a movie season crowded with westerns, "True Grit" -- the great, unsung novel of the American frontier -- celebrates its 40th anniversary.; By Allen Barra Nov 27, 2007
The strangers next door: A modern tale of gentrification pits black working-class folk against young white professionals pining for a fixer-upper.; By Laura Miller Nov 12, 2007
Norman Mailer 1923 - 2007: Remembrances of Norman Mailer by Marlon Brando, Liz Smith, Irving Howe, Diana Trilling, Edward Abbey, Germaine Greer and other notables.; Compiled by Dana Cook Nov 11, 2007
Remembering Norman Mailer through his books: This entry from "The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors" takes us on a tour of his best, his worst and his bravest.; By A.O. Scott Nov 10, 2007
Dumbledore? Gay. J.K. Rowling? Chatty.: What happens when authors like J.K. Rowling can't stop telling their own stories?; By Rebecca Traister Oct 23, 2007
How hard is it to write honestly about war?: A haunting, minimalist portrait of modern warfare by former soldier Matthew Eck.; By Stephen Elliott Oct 22, 2007
Salon's guide to Nobel winner Doris Lessing: Novelist, memoirist, activist, fantasist -- this entry from "The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors" takes you on a guided tour of the celebrated writer's long literary career.; By Laura Morgan Green Oct 12, 2007
The reluctant feminist: Nobel-winner Doris Lessing has shrugged off feminist interpretations of her work -- with good reason.; Carol Lloyd Oct 12, 2007
Phallus doesn't live here anymore: Philip Roth's aging alter ego returns to New York to confront his unrealizable lust and his fear that "reading/writing people" may be finished.; By Brendan Bernhard Oct 4, 2007
The intruder: A sexy Croatian college student disrupts the lives of a family of well-meaning New York liberals in Valerie Martin's "Trespass."; By Laura Miller Oct 1, 2007
War without end: Best known for his tales of losers, thieves and addicts, Denis Johnson takes on the Vietnam War in his daring new novel, "Tree of Smoke."; By Laura Miller Sep 17, 2007
"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao": Junot Díaz's long-awaited debut novel is a portrait of the artist as a nerdy young Latino -- as well as a tribute to Tolkien, magic realism and Dominican history.; By Roland Kelts Sep 12, 2007
"Engleby": The narrator of Sebastian Faulks' enthralling new novel is a witty, unreliable oddball -- but is he a murderer?; By Laura Miller Sep 7, 2007
Life beyond the lens: New novels frame two of photography's most compelling legends, Edward Curtis and Edward Steichen.; By Sarah Karnasiewicz Aug 2, 2007
"The Headmaster Ritual": Move over, "Prep" and "Harry Potter" -- Taylor Antrim has written the great American (or is that Korean-American?) boarding school novel.; By Ed Park Aug 1, 2007

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