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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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The author of "Bad Behavior" picks five tales of guys at the end of their ropes.
By Mary Gaitskill
November 15, 1999
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The author of "Bellefleur" selects five great "nonfiction novels."
By Joyce Carol Oates
September 20, 1999
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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
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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
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The worst books of 1998
By Salon contributors
December 24, 1998
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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
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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
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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
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Salon Entertainment: Salon film
critic Charles Taylor chooses the best movies of 1997.
By Charles Taylor
December 24, 1997