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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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What Hannah Arendt understood about irony that David Foster Wallace didn’t

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Close-reading Jennifer Weiner: Let’s give the best-selling author the serious, critical read she demands

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“The True American”: The hate-crime victim who pleaded for his attacker’s life

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“The Revolutions”: Dueling magicians in Victorian England

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Take notes, Nate Silver! Reinventing literary criticism with computers

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“Cubed”: How the American office worker wound up in a box

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Famous literary meals

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Is reading antisocial?

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An atheist’s secret mysticism

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“Game of Thrones” is not genre for guys!

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The Duke lacrosse rape scandal: The definitive account

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Lessons from Stephen King and “Valley of the Dolls”: Reading 100 years of bestsellers

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“The Last Pirate”: My dad, the pot smuggler

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You can’t buy that! The great e-book royalty war

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“The Age of Radiance”: The epic story of the Atomic Age

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From creationism to ESP: Why believers ignore science

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No one cares about your novel: So writers, don’t be boring!

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“Blood Will Out”: My friend, the murderer

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“Boy, Snow, Bird”: The (much) darker side of Snow White

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Harriet the Spy: The most unlikable hero in children’s lit

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“Annihilation”: Doomed expedition into the unknown

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Great literary husbands: The men who supported genius

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Our Neanderthal heritage

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“Tales of the City” author Armistead Maupin: “The Google Bus is the emperor’s carriage”

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