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Salon.com August 11, 2000 Laura Miller |
The death of the Red-Hot Center From literary giants tapping out the Great American novel through multiculturalism, Kmart realism and the Brat Pack to Oprah and your book club: A short history of fiction after 1960. |
Salon.com April 3, 2002 Helen Macleod |
Mirror, mirror Alas, now even the great Ian McEwan has succumbed to the dreary trend of writers writing novels about writers writing novels... |
Salon.com December 4, 2000 Laura Miller |
Older and better Critic David Kipen talks about the publishing industry's youth fetish and his list of 50 great authors over 50... |
Salon.com July 23, 2001 Mark Juddery |
Ben Elton The prolific comic genius behind "Blackadder," seven novels and four plays has been accused of going soft. He's happy to tell detractors where to stick it... |
Chemistry World September 2008 Philip Ball |
Column: The crucible We are conditioned to look at anything scientific as though we were back at school anticipating an exam, even if we find it between the covers of a novel. In my novel The Sun and Moon Corrupted, I include equations and quotes from Einstein's 1905 paper on special relativity |
Wired January 18, 2008 Clive Thompson |
Clive Thompson on Why Sci-Fi Is the Last Bastion of Philosophical Writing If you want to read books that tackle profound philosophical questions, then the best -- and perhaps only -- place to turn these days is science fiction. |
Salon.com February 16, 2001 Alan Furst |
War zone The author of "Kingdom of Shadows" picks four great books that transport you to the '30s and '40s. |
Salon.com December 13, 2000 David Gates |
Portrait of the artist as a minor character "David Copperfield" is the Dickens lover's guilty pleasure -- hammy, sweet and with a strangely passive hero... |
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Zorpette & Ross |
The Books That Made A Difference Leading technologists name the novel that influenced them the most: Vinton Cerf, Google: The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien... Donald Christiansen, President of Informatica: War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk... etc. |
Salon.com April 24, 2001 Charles Taylor |
Show and tell Moviegoers and readers ought to learn to love the book and the film... |
Salon.com May 26, 2000 Andrew Roe |
Martin Amis The man who has been called "the best American writer England has ever produced" and "the Mick Jagger of literature" once again finds himself the subject of speculation and scrutiny... |
Salon.com July 24, 2000 Salon's critics |
What to read: July fiction Novels of love and evil, from lesbian Victoriana to deft, Vonnegut-style humor and gritty Indian realism. |
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2009 Bob Brown |
Getting Graphic The graphic novel emerges as a versatile, effective medical education and marketing tool. |