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Laura Miller

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  • Books and Culture Columnist, Slate
Maine, New York
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Covers:  literature, book publishing, books
Doesn't Cover: self-published books
Book critic for Salon.com & others

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I am a co-founder of Salon.com, where I am currently a staff writer. My work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Time. the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian and other publications, and I wrote the "Last Word" column for the New York Times Book review for two years. I am the author of "The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia" (Little, Brown, 2008) and editor of the "The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors" (Penguin, 2000).

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What Stanley Kubrick got wrong about "The Shining"

What Stanley Kubrick got wrong about "The Shining"

Stephen King has always disliked Stanley Kubrick's film of "The Shining," and he has a point

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Rachel Kushner's ambitious new novel scares male critics

Rachel Kushner's ambitious new novel scares male critics

When Rachel Kushner -- not a venerable male auteur -- writes the Great American Novel, male reviewers are flu…

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Goodreads: Where readers and authors battle it out in an online "Lord of the Flies"

Goodreads: Where readers and authors battle it out in an online "Lord of the Flies"

Goodreads' utopian dream just collided with the reality of social media and gatekeeper-free self-publishing

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Just Write It

Just Write It

George R. R. Martin’s story suggests a new sense of what an author owes his readers

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Fresh Hell

Fresh Hell

What’s behind the boom in dystopian fiction for young readers?

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A Writer Was Accused of Cheating to Win a Prestigious Award. His Defense Has Only Made the Case Stranger. Original

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Books By Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. When Jamir Nazir’s short story “The Serpent in the Grove,” winner of the prestigious 2026 Commonwealth Prize, first set off accusations that it had been generated with artificial intelligence, some commenters speculated that Nazir himself, along with two other finalists, was an A.I. fabrication.
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Why Do Some Women Buy Into Right-Wing Ideology? Original

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Books By Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Sharon, one of the 85 women interviewed by academic Katie Gaddini for her insightful new book Esther’s Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right, lives in Portland, Oregon, “a famously liberal administration in a notoriously blue state.” Because Sharon is Black, everyone at the state government office where she works assumes that she’s a Democrat.
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Netflix’s Star-Studded Dante Movie Is Infernal Original

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Movies By Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In the Hand of Dante, Julian Schnabel’s new movie for Netflix, is a beautifully shot mess, with as many starry cameos as there are candied cherries in a fruitcake. Oscar Isaac, the lead, plays two roles, as does Gal Gadot, the love interest of both of Isaac’s characters, and as does Gerard Butler, who’s cast as both a brutal, grouchy hit man and Pope Boniface VIII.
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