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With his appalling new novel, Thomas Kinkade, "The Painter of Light™," makes a strong bid to become the world champion of vapid, money-grubbing kitsch.
By Laura Miller
March 18, 2002
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Two spirits guide a motherless girl through her life. Are they a blessing or a curse?
By Laura Miller
December 6, 2001
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Scott Fitzgerald stole Zelda's ideas, plagiarized her diaries and even pushed her into an affair. He was arguably the worst husband of his generation -- and that made him its best author.
By Jonathon Keats
August 25, 2001
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Is a snooty "sentence cult" sending the Great American Novel to hell in a pretentious purple handbasket?
By Laura Miller
August 16, 2001
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In which the God gene, among other things, is discussed, and there's some rather heated talk about growing a second sex organ.
By Alfred Alcorn
July 13, 2001
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In which, sadly, breaking a habit called "life" becomes a real possibility.
By Alfred Alcorn
July 11, 2001
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In which Worried sends another message and, by the way, mentions a couple of bodies in a bag.
By Alfred Alcorn
July 2, 2001
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In which Worried sends a video of a well-fleshed blond and two gentlemen indulging in intimate calisthenics.
By Alfred Alcorn
June 29, 2001
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In which Worried is contacted and our victims are imagined as cartoonishly Larsonesque sexual monsters.
By Alfred Alcorn
June 27, 2001
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In which two mysterious deaths are described in, ahem, detail and it's assumed that the victims were not engaged in premeditated sex.
By Alfred Alcorn
June 25, 2001
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Richard Russo's masterly comic epic of small-town life; a thriller about the science of near-death experiences; randy, E-tarded Edinburgh lads from the author of "Trainspotting"; and more.
By Salon's critics
May 21, 2001
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I hope it's true that every marriage, sometime in its existence, knows a moment like this.
An excerpt from a novel about a man's evolving sexuality.
By Anthony Giardina
April 2, 2001
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In the bestselling novelist's latest, the natural world overflows with lusty birds, bees and baby boomers.
By Elizabeth Judd
November 17, 2000
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Rebbecca Ray's novel, "Pure," written when she was 16, is a raw work of sexual exposure. Is it autobiographical? "Thank God it's not," she says.
By Tess Taylor
September 20, 2000
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Novels of love and evil, from lesbian Victoriana to deft, Vonnegut-style humor and gritty Indian realism.
By Salon's critics
July 24, 2000
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30,000 feet above Jackson, Miss., I came to believe it was time to start a novel.
By Anne Lamott
July 22, 1999
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In Steve Erickson's visionary new novel, it already is the end of the world -- and we don't know it.
By Sarah Vowell
April 21, 1999
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Ian McKellen gives a virtuoso performance as early
Hollywood's only ecstatically "out" gay director in 'Gods and Monsters.
By Jonathan Lethem
November 20, 1998
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In an excerpt from her first novel, "Rules of the Wild,"
Francesca Marciano portrays the seductive subculture of whites in Kenya -- and
the addicting allure of Africa's vastness.
By Francesca Marciano
October 8, 1998
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With the formulaic "Damascus Gate," a serious novelist succumbs to fictional banalities.
By Robert Alter
April 16, 1998
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In the 'Pink' By Cynthia Joyce. Director Gus Van Sant talks about his first novel.
By Cynthia Joyce
October 24, 1997
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Product placement comes to the novel.
By J.B. Miller
October 8, 1997
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A profile of Charles Frazier, author of "Cold Mountain."
By Laura Miller
July 9, 1997
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A review of Thomas Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon"
By Scott McLemee
April 25, 1997
The Writer of Dreck™
"Eva Moves the Furniture" by Margot Livesey
For the love of literature
Sentenced to death
Chapter 1: Tuesday, Sept. 26
What to read: The best of May fiction
A special time
Lolita's book tour
What to read: July fiction
War Room
Broadsheet
How the World Works