In 1995, Laura Miller helped to co-found Salon.com, where she is currently a staff writer. 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.

Laura Miller's Salon stories

Monday, Nov 23, 2009 17:24 PST

Creationism vs. atheism: It's on!

A "revised" edition of Darwin's "The Origin of Species" turns college campuses into three-ring circuses
Sunday, Nov 22, 2009 18:01 PST

Christmas insanity unwrapped

"Tinsel" investigates the allure -- and demented poignancy -- of America's holiday obsession
Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009 16:18 PST

Vanity book awards

Want to win some props for your masterpiece? We can do that -- for a price
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
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
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
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"
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
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
Thursday, Oct 22, 2009 17:23 PDT

Crowdsourcing "Coraline"

Can a hundred Neil Gaiman-imitating twitterers produce anything worth reading?
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
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
Tuesday, Oct 6, 2009 00:07 PDT

Do readers really want video-book hybrids?

Meet the "vook," the latest "book of the future"
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"
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
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
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
Wednesday, Sep 9, 2009 03:19 PDT

The best sci-fi series you've never heard of

Forget the latest from J.J. Abrams. The six-part miniseries "The Lost Room" is a cult hit waiting to happen
Wednesday, Aug 12, 2009 03:18 PDT

Critics' Picks: Magic for grown-ups

"The Magicians" is a ravishing adult novel that shines a new light on the fantasy tales we read as kids
Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009 03:17 PDT

Will the swinging '60s crush our "Mad Men"?

A huge culture shock awaits Sterling Cooper. Here's a look at the "creative revolution" that hit the ad world
Wednesday, Aug 5, 2009 03:19 PDT

Critics' Picks: The troll's revenge

Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link and other writers reimagine fairy tales from the villain's point of view
Friday, Jul 31, 2009 03:31 PDT

Pynchon lights up

The famed author is back with a tale of drugs, hippies and paranoia -- and you don't need a decoder ring to read it
Friday, Jul 31, 2009 03:21 PDT

Critics' Picks: "True Blood's" queen of chaos

Michelle Forbes was born to play this vampire drama's menacing Marianne
Thursday, Jul 23, 2009 03:23 PDT

Must read: "Glover's Mistake"

A lovelorn schoolteacher uses the Internet to exact his romantic revenge in Nick Laird's chilling tale
Monday, Jul 20, 2009 03:18 PDT

Why we say yes to drugs

Resistance to mind-altering substances is futile, according to a new "Secret History of Getting High in America"
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