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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT By Stephanie Zacharek Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/09/01/lorrie_moore/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/09/01/lorrie_moore/index.html?source=rss The celebrated author's "A Gate at the Stairs" is aggressively clever, meticulously crafted -- and exhausting By Andrew O'Hehir Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2009/09/18/malkovich/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2009/09/18/malkovich/index.html?source=rss The screen icon on playing Coetzee's doomed hero, rewriting other people's scripts and making terrible movies Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2009/08/26/lucinda_rosenfeld/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2009/08/26/lucinda_rosenfeld/index.html?source=rss Lucinda Rosenfeld talks about the dark side of female friendships and plants a stiletto in sisterhood clichés By Cary Tennis Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/08/26/bad_novel/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/08/26/bad_novel/index.html?source=rss She wants me to comment -- but what can I say without ending our friendship? By Laura Miller Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/critics_picks/2009/08/12/magicians/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/critics_picks/2009/08/12/magicians/index.html?source=rss "The Magicians" is a ravishing adult novel that shines a new light on the fantasy tales we read as kids By Laura Miller Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/07/31/pynchon/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/07/31/pynchon/index.html?source=rss The famed author is back with a tale of drugs, hippies and paranoia -- and you don't need a decoder ring to read it By Thomas Rogers Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/06/19/lauren_conrad/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/06/19/lauren_conrad/index.html?source=rss The "Hills" star puts reality TV behind her -- with a novel about a reality star who just wants to be a normal girl By Allen Barra Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2009/06/04/aleksandar_hemon/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2009/06/04/aleksandar_hemon/index.html?source=rss Aleksandar Hemon's fictional alter ego drinks and writes his way through exile in these superb coming-of-age tales. By Laura Miller Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2009/05/26/clancy_martin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2009/05/26/clancy_martin/index.html?source=rss Diamonds are a boy's best friend in this crackling novel of scams, sex and druggy escapades in the jewel trade. By Cary Tennis Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/05/19/creativity/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/05/19/creativity/index.html?source=rss I've had some success at 60, but it seems downhill from here. By Laura Miller Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2009/04/14/arthur_phillips/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2009/04/14/arthur_phillips/index.html?source=rss Love among the iPods: A divorced TV director is content to be left alone with his old songs -- until he meets a new singer. By Nina Power Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2009/04/04/charlotte_roche/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2009/04/04/charlotte_roche/index.html?source=rss Controversial "Wetlands" author Charlotte Roche talks about bodily functions, shaving pubic hair, and why there are so few euphemisms for female masturbation. By Laura Miller Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2009/03/16/harwood/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2009/03/16/harwood/index.html?source=rss The cursed and the dead haunt this elegantly gothic tale, tracing the line between the scientific and the paranormal. By Andrew O'Hehir Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/12/17/duncan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/12/17/duncan/index.html?source=rss A '60s activist-turned-vigilante is tortured by a handsome interrogator in Glen Duncan's gripping new novel. So which one is the villain? By Laura Miller Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2008/12/16/rash/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2008/12/16/rash/index.html?source=rss A lumber baron, a ruthless sexpot and a one-handed henchman star in this wildly entertaining tale of passion, murder and deforestation set in Depression-era North Carolina. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/big_think/2008/12/15/bt_alaa_al_aswany/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/big_think/2008/12/15/bt_alaa_al_aswany/index.html?source=rss Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany discusses his creative process and his other profession: Dentistry. By James Hannaham Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2008/11/25/an_wilson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2008/11/25/an_wilson/index.html?source=rss What if Hitler had a love child? A.N. Wilson's "Winnie and Wolf" is a chilling fictional tale of a clandestine affair. By James Hannaham Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2008/09/30/kring/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/must_read/2008/09/30/kring/index.html?source=rss A messed-up Midwestern family grapples with buried secrets in Sandra's Kring's gripping saga "Thank You for All Things." By Sarah Hepola Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/09/24/klosterman/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/09/24/klosterman/index.html?source=rss Wildly praised and pathologically reviled, the writer who built a career on pop-cultural essays explains why he has written a novel about small-town America. By Louis Bayard Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/09/16/roth/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/09/16/roth/index.html?source=rss In his affecting new book, Roth's young hero abandons his Jewish upbringing for life in small town Ohio. By Rebecca Traister Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/09/08/sittenfeld_q_a/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/09/08/sittenfeld_q_a/index.html?source=rss "American Wife" author Curtis Sittenfeld on her first lady obsession, dirty bits with George W., and whether we're responsible for the behavior of our loved ones. By Andrew O'Hehir Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/08/08/elegy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/08/08/elegy/index.html?source=rss Penélope Cruz gets art-history naked and Ben Kingsley is diamond-brilliant in an overly pretty film adaptation of Philip Roth's "Dying Animal." By Rebecca Johnson Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/08/04/blurbs/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/08/04/blurbs/index.html?source=rss I had an agent and a book deal for my first novel. All I was missing was quotes for the back cover. Next time, remind me to suck up to more famous writers. By Laura Miller Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/07/24/matthew_kneale/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/07/24/matthew_kneale/index.html?source=rss The 9-year-old narrator of the heartbreaking "When We Were Romans" flees family chaos through literature. By Louis Bayard Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/07/22/james_wood/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/07/22/james_wood/index.html?source=rss The fiercely talented critic takes us on an illuminating tour of fiction -- but there's a hole in his plot.