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In 1995, Laura Miller helped to co-found Salon.com. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, where she wrote the Last Word column for two years. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal and many other publications. She is the author of “The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia” (Little, Brown, 2008) and the editor of “The Salon.com Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Authors” (Penguin, 2000). She lives in New York.

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Murakami’s understated triumph: What Japan’s most celebrated writer knows that American novelists don’t

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“Getting Schooled”: Back to teaching in the era of Common Core

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ABC’s bizarre new fantasy world: Why medieval fiction and reality TV should never meet

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“Whisky Tango Foxtrot”: A techno-thriller with a soul

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VIP boxes and seven-figure advances: How fiction gets the publishing industry laughably wrong

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“Tomlinson Hill”: A white man from Texas unearths his family’s shockingly racist past

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From “True Blood” to “The Strain”: Vampire-ifying stories is ruining perfectly good plots

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“I was just amazed”: Joanna Rakoff on reading Salinger’s fan mail

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Lesbian marriage in early America

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“The Skeleton Crew”: How a motley band of amateurs solves cold cases online

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Amazon is not your best friend: Why self-published authors should side with Hachette

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(HBO)

Craving more “Game of Thrones”? Read this book now

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“The Most Dangerous Book”: When “Ulysses” was obscene

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This is the absolute worst way to teach your kids to read

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“How Not to Be Wrong”: What the literary world can learn from math

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“The Fault in Our Stars” has been unfairly bashed by critics who don’t understand it

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“Euphoria”: Primitive love

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Sleazy, bloody and surprisingly smart: In defense of true crime

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How Maya Angelou became the voice of America

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“Stuff Matters”: Unpacking the small, material wonders of everyday life

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Goodbye, Amazon: We’re through!

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A neurotic writer aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

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“War and Peace” on the subway: How your iPhone is saving literature

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“The Year She Left Us”: An angry Chinese adoptee’s story

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