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"John Henry Days" In Colson Whitehead's dazzling follow-up to "The Intuitionist," a junketeering journalist pursues an American legend in an epic tale of man, machine and free drinks.
By Jonathan Miles [05/11/01]

"The Rights of Desire" by Andre Brink A May-December romance in a post-apartheid South Africa where violence is always ready to erupt.
By Jonathan Miles [04/19/01]

"Rides of the Midway" by Lee Durkee With this full-tilt novel of youthful catastrophe and hellbent debauchery, a bartender kicks in the door of Southern literature.
By Jonathan Miles [02/21/01]

"The Law of Averages" by Frederick Barthelme The confessed minimalist's new book proves that the much-reviled genre can still break your heart.
By Jonathan Miles [11/15/00]

What to read in October Hunting a Tasmanian tiger, denouncing the '60s generation, loving Graham Greene and unveiling family secrets in the best fall fiction.
By Salon's critics [10/23/00]

"The Beast God Forgot to Invent" by Jim Harrison Imbued with all the gravelly melancholy of a Tom Waits ballad, the new book by the author of "Legends of the Fall" presents a cast of prickly, coarse and utterly lovable antiheroes.
By Jonathan Miles [10/19/00]

"Noodling for Flatheads" by Burkhard Bilger A tribute to moonshiners, squirrel-brain eaters, cockfighters and other Southern holdouts against a bland and uniform national culture.
By Jonathan Miles [09/13/00]

What to read: September fiction From a surreal, carnal coming-of-age set on Coney Island to a wicked, gossipy story of the literary life, our critics pick the best books.
By Salon's critics [09/13/00]

"The Heartsong of Charging Elk" by James Welch The latest from the Native American novelist probes the culture shock of an Oglala Sioux abandoned in France by Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
By Jonathan Miles [08/15/00]

"Jim the Boy" by Tony Earley The long-awaited novel by a New York Times and New Yorker darling is a plodding, goody-two-shoes effort that reads like a dusty Boy Scout manual.
By Jonathan Miles [06/13/00]

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