Books

Creationism

Creationism vs. atheism: It's on!

A "revised" edition of Darwin's "The Origin of Species" turns college campuses into three-ring circuses
Laura Miller
Literary Prizes

Vanity book awards

Want to win some props for your masterpiece? We can do that -- for a price
Laura Miller
Sarah Palin

"Going Rogue" -- the shorter version

What you really need to know about Sarah Palin's new opus -- the slurs, the zingers, the big-time bloopers
Thomas Rogers
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Christmas insanity unwrapped

"Tinsel" investigates the allure -- and demented poignancy -- of America's holiday obsession
Laura Miller
Sarah Palin

Democrat goes rogue, declares Palin's book "great"

The surprising charms of the week's most talked-about political memoir
Sandra Tsing-Loh

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Sunday, Nov 15, 2009 18:01 PST

How memoirs took over the literary world

A new book says: Fiction is dead, long live the age of autobiography
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Saturday, Nov 14, 2009 09:01 PST

Palin's book goes rogue on the facts

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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009 17:07 PST

Investigating his father's murder

A memoirist searches for the truth about a fatal shooting in 1960s Phoenix
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Friday, Nov 6, 2009 17:07 PST

Jonathan Safran Foer's beef with factory farms

The polarizing author and vegetarian discusses his new book, "Eating Animals," and the hefty cost of cheap food
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Friday, Nov 6, 2009 00:01 PST

Augusten Burroughs shares his holiday stories

By ALICIA RANCILIO, Associated Press
Thursday, Nov 5, 2009 17:06 PST

A 10-best books list without women?

Controversy about Publishers Weekly's year-end list has the Internet up in arms
By Laura Miller
Wednesday, Nov 4, 2009 00:00 PST

Obama's half brother recalls their abusive father

By WILLIAM FOREMAN, Associated Press
Sunday, Nov 1, 2009 17:31 PST

Archaeologists behaving badly

Mystery and conspiracy plague a dig at the site of ancient Sparta in "The Hidden"
By Laura Miller
Friday, Oct 30, 2009 17:30 PDT

Peter Straub on how to scare readers

The author of "Ghost Story" and "Koko" talks about the fine art of literary terror
By Laura Miller
Sunday, Oct 25, 2009 17:24 PDT

Memo to grammar cops: Back off!

A new book on the history of "proper" English says you're just stuck up
By Laura Miller
Friday, Oct 23, 2009 15:24 PDT

"Chronic" overachiever: Interview with Jonathan Lethem

The writer talks about his new novel's ambivalent take on New York, and how cultural obsession can lead to madness Video
By Kerry Lauerman
Thursday, Oct 22, 2009 17:23 PDT

Crowdsourcing "Coraline"

Can a hundred Neil Gaiman-imitating twitterers produce anything worth reading?
By Laura Miller
Monday, Oct 19, 2009 00:15 PDT

Elizabeth Taylor: How to Be a Movie Star

A new biography of the most beautiful woman in the world says her greatest talent lay in being famous
By Laura Miller
Friday, Oct 16, 2009 00:07 PDT

Richard Dawkins: God among atheists

The scientist talks about his guide to evolution, his own fame and why it's pointless to argue with creationists Video
By Thomas Rogers
Thursday, Oct 15, 2009 00:07 PDT

Edmund White comes out swinging

The gay literary lion talks about his juicy memoir, same-sex marriage -- and his beef with Gore Vidal Video
By Thomas Rogers
Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009 00:06 PDT

Why the Berlin Wall fell

Stephen Kotkin's fascinating "Uncivil Society" presents a revisionist account of Communism's failure
By Laura Miller
Tuesday, Oct 6, 2009 00:07 PDT

Do readers really want video-book hybrids?

Meet the "vook," the latest "book of the future"
By Laura Miller
Monday, Oct 5, 2009 00:07 PDT

The murder she didn't commit

A reformed alcoholic learns she's innocent of the crime that changed her life in "Blame"
By Laura Miller
Thursday, Sep 24, 2009 03:30 PDT

John Maynard Keynes: Don't call it a comeback

The legendary economist has been dead for 60 years but still managed to help us avoid a second Great Depression
By Andrew Leonard
Tuesday, Sep 22, 2009 03:22 PDT

America, the beautiful (America, the ugly)

This masterly literary history from co-editor Greil Marcus does justice to our country's best and worst moments
By Laura Miller
Saturday, Sep 19, 2009 04:11 PDT

Is the Internet melting our brains?

No! The author of "A Better Pencil" explains why such hysterical hand-wringing is as old as communication itself
By Vincent Rossmeier
Tuesday, Sep 15, 2009 13:15 PDT

Dan Brown swaps pseudohistory for pseudoscience

With "The Lost Symbol," his "Da Vinci" follow-up, Brown spins a wild Freemason conspiracy -- then never solves it
By Laura Miller
Saturday, Sep 12, 2009 03:10 PDT

Glenn Beck is the future of literary fiction

A handful of right-wing bestsellers have recast mundane cultural dislocation into riveting epics of paranoia
By Steve Almond
Thursday, Sep 10, 2009 03:17 PDT

Can cheap be sexy?

At a time when Americans are wallowing in consumer debt, let's reconsider the joys of penny pinching
By Laura Miller
Thursday, Sep 3, 2009 03:20 PDT

The journalist, the murderer and the Adderall

Author Stephen Elliott talks about the grisly trial, and the prescription dependency, he could not shake
By Joe Coscarelli