http://dir.salon.com/topics/novels/?source=rss&aim=novels en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT Andrew O'Hehir Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 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 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 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 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 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 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 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. By Laura Miller Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/06/27/wroblewski/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/06/27/wroblewski/index.html?source=rss With its taproot in "Hamlet," this novel spins an engrossing tale of power struggles within a family of Wisconsin dog breeders. By Allen Barra Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/06/20/sebastian_barry/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/06/20/sebastian_barry/index.html?source=rss Sebastian Barry may be the most exhilarating prose stylist in Irish fiction. His new book weaves together strands from Ireland's past -- and his own. By Salon staff Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/06/16/summer_reads4/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/06/16/summer_reads4/index.html?source=rss Past perfect: From a sinister Victorian thriller to the lush life of Louis XIV's mistress, these historical novels will take you back in time. By Laura Miller Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/06/13/rushdie/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/06/13/rushdie/index.html?source=rss In Salman Rushdie's satisfying fairy tale "The Enchantress of Florence," magic and history entwine -- and so do a middle-aged emperor and a sexy princess. By Salon staff Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/06/02/summer_reads2/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/06/02/summer_reads2/index.html?source=rss Chick chat: From a black-humored romantic romp to the tale of a single woman flirting her way around the world, these novels make perfect beach companions. By Cary Tennis Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/30/writing_fellowship/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/30/writing_fellowship/index.html?source=rss I'm lucky, I know I'm lucky, but I don't feel lucky. I just feel burdened. By Rebecca Traister Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/05/28/janelle_brown/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/05/28/janelle_brown/index.html?source=rss With its teen sex, meth habits and quarter-life crises, Janelle Brown's addictive Silicon Valley novel shows that in every boom, there's a bust. By Cary Tennis Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/27/need_solitude/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/27/need_solitude/index.html?source=rss Is there something wrong with me? Why can't I just be lovable and outgoing? By Louis Bayard and Laura Miller Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/05/22/critics/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/05/22/critics/index.html?source=rss In the age of blogging, great critics appear to be on life support. Salon's book reviewers discuss snobbery, how to make criticism fun and the need for cultural gatekeepers. By Laura Miller Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/05/01/LeGuin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/05/01/LeGuin/index.html?source=rss 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 Louis Bayard Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/04/18/fowler/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/04/18/fowler/index.html?source=rss 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 Laura Miller Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/04/10/jonathan_coe/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/04/10/jonathan_coe/index.html?source=rss Jonathan Coe's graceful new novel is the tale of daughters destined to repeat the failures of their mothers. By Laura Miller Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/03/18/owen_sheers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/03/18/owen_sheers/index.html?source=rss A haunting new alternative history imagines an invading German army living alongside the natives in rural Wales. By Richard B. Woodward Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/03/10/richard_price/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/03/10/richard_price/index.html?source=rss "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 Stephen Marche Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/03/06/robbe_grillet/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/03/06/robbe_grillet/index.html?source=rss Alain Robbe-Grillet turned the masses against inventive fiction. Now that he's dead, will experimental writing make a comeback? By Laura Miller Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/02/19/choi/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/02/19/choi/index.html?source=rss An innocent math professor gets caught up in the search for an anti-technology terrorist. By Allen Barra Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/02/06/nemirovsky/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/02/06/nemirovsky/index.html?source=rss "Suite Française" made her a posthumous literary sensation. But newly published work raises the question: Was Némirovsky a Jewish anti-Semite? By Laura Miller Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/02/04/millet/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/02/04/millet/index.html?source=rss Witness the sentimental education of an Information Age Everyman -- and his salvation -- in Lydia Millet's beautiful new novel. By Heather Havrilesky Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/11/28/hoeg/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/11/28/hoeg/index.html?source=rss A hero with superhuman hearing sets out to rescue a silent child in Peter Hoeg's compelling new mystery. By Allen Barra Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/11/27/true_grit/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/11/27/true_grit/index.html?source=rss In a movie season crowded with westerns, "True Grit" -- the great, unsung novel of the American frontier -- celebrates its 40th anniversary. By Laura Miller Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/11/12/mccall/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/11/12/mccall/index.html?source=rss A modern tale of gentrification pits black working-class folk against young white professionals pining for a fixer-upper.