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  • Instant salvation

    In A.M. Homes' surprisingly sunny new novel, an alienated middle-aged professional goes from unenlightened zero to sensitive superhero in 30 days or less.
    By Heather Havrilesky April 24, 2006

  • "Memoirs of a Muse"

    In Lara Vapnyar's amusing first novel, a young Russian immigrant strives to emulate Dostoevski's mistress and become a great man's inspiration.
    By Laura Miller April 11, 2006

  • "A Million Nightingales"

    In an excerpt from Susan Straight's new novel, a mixed-race slave girl tries to outwit her captors.
    By Susan Straight March 18, 2006

  • "The Thin Place"

    In Kathryn Davis' lustrous new novel, cosmic forces seep into a small Vermont town and an adolescent girl brings a man back to life.
    By Laura Miller January 26, 2006

  • Finding our religion

    "Mission to America," Walter Kirn's delightful portrait of a nation at loose spiritual ends, outdoes the work of Tom Wolfe.
    By Laura Miller November 21, 2005

  • Fantastic friends

    Bestselling writers Neil Gaiman and Susanna Clarke talk with Salon about fairies, folk tales and fighting the tyranny of realism.
    By Laura Miller October 8, 2005

  • "The March" by E.L. Doctorow

    In this kaleidoscopic rendering of Gen. Sherman's famous March to the Sea, the characters and metaphors come and go with all the tumult of the Union Army.
    By Laura Miller October 1, 2005

  • "Slow Man" by J.M. Coetzee

    Nobel laureate Coetzee takes a simple plot -- an aging, injured man falls for his nurse -- and spins it into a postmodern meditation on desire and humanity.
    By Hillary Frey October 1, 2005

  • "Wickett's Remedy" by Myla Goldberg

    The author of "Bee Season" ventures into new territory with the story of an Irish Catholic girl in Boston widowed by the influenza epidemic of 1918.
    By Ira Boudway October 1, 2005

  • "Pigtopia" by Kitty Fitzgerald

    A misshapen boy-man with a secret "Pig Palace" befriends a lonely teenage girl in this fantastic fable that never fully departs from the possible.
    By Andrew O'Hehir October 1, 2005

  • "Anansi Boys" by Neil Gaiman

    A hybrid of folklore and farce, the latest from the author of "American Gods" unfurls the story of Fat Charlie, a pitiful working bloke who's the son of a trickster god.
    By Laura Miller October 1, 2005

  • What to read

    New novels from Zadie Smith, Neil Gaiman, Myla Goldberg and E.L. Doctorow stand out in fall's first wave of fiction.
    By Salon's critics October 1, 2005

  • "On Beauty" by Zadie Smith

    From the author of "White Teeth" and "The Autograph Man" comes an extraordinary academic comic novel in the tradition of "Howards End" that bursts with imagination.
    By Laura Miller October 1, 2005

  • Reading "Anna Karenina"

    I put off Tolstoy's novel for years, but I finally had to find out: Is it truly one of the greatest books ever written?
    By James Hynes July 11, 2005

  • Summer reading

    There's a little something for everyone -- Vampires! Time travelers! British babes! -- in this selection of page turners guaranteed to make your summer shine.
    By Salon Staff June 6, 2005

  • "Misfortune" by Wesley Stace

    In this enjoyable 19th century potboiler with a twist, a boy is raised as a girl, and a balladeer plays a starring role in solving the mystery of her parentage.
    By Laura Miller June 6, 2005

  • "Cast of Shadows" by Kevin Guilfoile

    A father uses cloning technology and a video game to track down the man who killed and raped his daughter in this near-futuristic thriller.
    By Laura Miller June 6, 2005

  • "In the Shadow of the Law" by Kermit Roosevelt

    A terrifically idiosyncratic and colorful bunch of characters make this K Street thriller about corporate law a standout.
    By Laura Miller June 6, 2005

  • "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova

    A band of intrepid historians hunt for the real-life Dracula -- and visit plenty of far-flung European locales -- in this hypnotic multigenerational mystery.
    By Laura Miller June 6, 2005

  • "10 Men" by Alexandra Gray

    In this smart and stylish debut, an unnamed heroine guides us through her personal history of love, one man at a time, as she searches for true happiness.
    By Hillary Frey June 6, 2005

  • What to Read

    Late spring's fiction covers a vast terrain, with novels set in lovely London, the English countryside, corrupt New York and Midwestern Ohio.
    By Salon's critics May 6, 2005

  • "God save us from the innocent and the good"

    Looking at Graham Greene's novels a century after his birth, we see a cool analyst of human venality and corruption -- who warned us long ago about the terrible effects of America's naive meddling in other nations' affairs.
    By Laura Miller October 23, 2004

  • Best fiction of 2003

    Salon's picks for the year's finest novels include off-center tales of the '70s, the slavery era and the Lewis and Clark expedition, a battle with troublesome software code, and the purgatory of boarding school.
    By Laura Miller January 10, 2004

  • "The Spooky Art" by Norman Mailer

    In a new volume of advice to young writers, the great man of American letters weighs his own legacy -- and finds it wanting.
    By Aaron Hicklin April 14, 2003

  • "The Time of Our Singing" by Richard Powers

    In his dazzling new novel, America's preeminent novelist of ideas creates characters as compelling as his concepts.
    By Laura Miller January 22, 2003
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