Russell Banks

  • Strange flesh

    In this shocking final installment from Russell Banks' new novel, Hannah meets Woodrow's family in their jungle village.
    By Russell Banks October 20, 2004

  • "The Darling": Lost in the jungle

    As the 20th century melts away (along with the 19th and 18th), Hannah finally reaches the village of Woodrow's ancestors. It isn't quite what she was expecting.
    By Russell Banks October 18, 2004

  • "The Darling": On the road

    "The devil you know is better than the devil you don't know." Love and radical politics collide in the second of four installments from Russell Banks' riveting new novel.
    By Russell Banks October 14, 2004

  • "The Darling": Into the bush

    A white American woman involved with the Weather Underground flees the country and finds refuge -- and an unlikely romance -- in 1970s Liberia.
    By Russell Banks October 12, 2004

  • "The Angel on the Roof" by Russell Banks

    In stories from nearly four decades, the writer demonstrates an astonishing range, a wonderful eye and a finely tuned talent for breaking hearts.
    By Jonathan Miles June 8, 2000

  • Men at extremes

    The author of "Bad Behavior" picks five tales of guys at the end of their ropes.
    By Mary Gaitskill November 15, 1999

  • The docu-novel

    The author of "Bellefleur" selects five great "nonfiction novels."
    By Joyce Carol Oates September 20, 1999

  • Affliction

    Charles Taylor reviews 'Affliction' directed and adapted by Paul Schrader and starring Nick Nolte, James Coburn, Sissy Spacek and Willem Dafoe
    By Charles Taylor January 8, 1999

  • Screensaver: On his own turf

    Director-writer Paul Schrader talks about his acclaimed modestly budgeted "Affliction" and the pleasures of working the fertile emotional territory the big studios can't touch.
    By Cynthia Joyce January 7, 1999

  • Turkey Shoot 1998

    The worst books of 1998
    By Salon contributors December 24, 1998

  • Terrible swift sword

    David Bowman reviews "Cloudsplitter," Russell Banks' effort at the Great American Novel, an ambitious resurrection of the life and times of anti-slavery crusader John Brown.
    By David Bowman December 3, 1998

  • Russell Banks

    Novelist Russell Banks talks about "The Sweet Hereafter," "Continental Drift" and other work that has suddenly become hot property in Hollywood.
    By Cynthia Joyce January 5, 1998

  • The Salon Interview - Russell Banks

    Novelist Russell Banks talks about "The Sweet Hereafter," "Continental Drift" and other work that has suddenly become hot property in Hollywood.
    By Cynthia Joyce January 5, 1998

  • The Year in Film 1997

    Salon Entertainment: Salon film critic Charles Taylor chooses the best movies of 1997.
    By Charles Taylor December 24, 1997
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