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Richard Whitehead, the deputy editor of books at the Times (London), named the six best William Hill Sports Book of the Year winners. Here...

"Nice liberal Canada skewered for dinner: A T.O. smartypants creates a war criminal to send up smug Canuck hypocrisy and gets a Giller...

David Kamp, a Vanity Fair contributing editor and the author of The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation , named six bo...

The actor Barry Pepper ( Flags of Our Fathers , Saving Private Ryan , The Green Mile ) recently talked to the Christian Science Monitor abo...

From Mark Sanderson's "Literary Life" column at the Telegraph (London): What do the following, mainly obscure, works have in...

I've just posted a review of The Road over at Spot-on . The opening lines of the review: Cormac McCarthy’s new novel The Road may be ...

John Gittings is a writer on China and world affairs. His most recent book is The Changing Face of China: From Mao to Market , which Rana ...

You spy a novel with a title that proclaims your all-time favorite writer lied. What do you do? That's the question which confronted me...

Laura Lippman , who is most responsible for my mental map of Baltimore with her many novels set there, wrote Salon 's literary guide for...

"With the contemporary nuclear family splitting and reconfiguring itself into a dizzying number of shapes, it might seem as though the...

Eric Rauchway , a history professor at the University of California, Davis, is the author of Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roos...

Good news from the official Elmore Leonard website : New Elmore Leonard Novel - May 8, 2007 Elmore has just completed his 41st novel, Up in...

I just came across this list by Louise Welsh, an author whose work I've already praised here and here . From her literary top 10 list:...

The film version of The Black Dahlia , which I had been looking forward to for so long, is finally out. My bottom line: disappointing. But ...

Tim Brookes is the author of seven books and numerous articles that appeared in Harper’s , the Atlantic Monthly , the New York Times Magazi...

Benjamin Kunkel, the author of Indecision , a novel, and an editor of n+1 magazine , writes in Salon of Argentina as a "country [that...