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Oberlin English professor Anne Trubek argues that J.D. Salinger's coming-of-age novel Catcher In The Rye should be replaced in high school reading lists. She recently wrote a list of new recommendations for GOOD magazine.Web Extra: A List of Recommended Books
J. Michael Walker has spent eight years exploring Los Angeles roads named after saints.
Nicole Sexton's young heroine has a knack for throwing parties and tapping rich donors.Web Extra:Read An Excerpt
August 28, 2008 · A comic thriller composed with literary refinement and an ear for wordplay, Adam Davies' Mine All Mine bounces through a world of objets d'art and tranquilizer darts.Web Extra: Read An Excerpt
August 29, 2008 · Following schoolyard arguments last year between young Clinton and Obama supporters, a teacher at Ebert Elementary School in Denver chose to teach the election by using books as candidates. Primaries will be held and a book president elected.
August 27, 2008 · The last summer holiday, Labor Day, is fast approaching and Karen Grigsby Bates is planning to use the weekend to kick back and catch up on some summer reading.Web Extra: Read Excerpts
August 20, 2008 · A new novel three decades in the making features time travel, screwball hidden identity plots and lively background music. Reviewer Maureen Corrigan calls The Little Book by Selden Edwards an "an ideal late-summer reading getaway."Web Extra: Read an Excerpt
August 26, 2008 · Journalist Jeroen van Bergeijk wanted an adventure, so he bought a 1988 clunker in his native Amsterdam and drove it across the Sahara with the intention of selling it. Within a week of arriving in Africa, he had dozens of offers. By then, however, he was attached to his vehicle and the possibilities it held.Web Extra: Read Excerpt
August 25, 2008 · China's scale is so vast, its variety so great and its rising power so apparent, it acts as an enormous magnet fixing our attention. One result is a torrent of books — but how on earth to choose?
August 26, 2008 · America America is an ambitious, old-fashioned novel about politics, power and class in a small, upstate New York town. The Nixon-era tale is Canin's sixth book.Web Extra: Read An Excerpt
August 25, 2008 · To solve the murder of her own doppelganger, Detective Cassie Maddox assumes the dead woman's identity and enters into the complex, collective psychology of a charismatic group. Barrie Hardymon has a review.Web Extra: Read an Excerpt
August 24, 2008 · In much of the debate over immigration, there is an underlying question of whether immigrants today are assimilating as easily as past generations. In New York City, the answer is an unqualified "yes," according to a 10-year study involving more than 3,000 young men and women.Web Extra: Read An Excerpt
August 22, 2008 · Movie Love In The Fifties offers a view of America as it was 50 years ago, a postwar nation whose struggle to understand race and sex and fashion was reflected in films that weren't all pitched to the appetites of teenage boys.Web Extra: Read An Excerpt
August 20, 2008 · A dollar won't buy you much in Europe these days. But three books set on the continent offer a full immersion in "la dolce vita" — at minimal cost.
China's rising power acts as an enormous magnet fixing our attention.
Three books set on the continent offer a full immersion in "la dolce vita" — at minimal cost.
As loyal pets or rabid fiends, our canine companions have always been a source of fascination.
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