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We're failing our kids
No Child Left Behind has plenty of flaws, but throwing it out because it's a Republican plan is morally disgusting.
By Garrison Keillor Jan 30, 2008
Is it too late to start a band at 45?
I don't want to be a laughingstock, but I am a creative type!
By Cary Tennis Apr 25, 2007
Kurt Vonnegut reads from "Slaughterhouse-Five"
A five-minute audio clip of Kurt Vonnegut reading from his masterpiece.
Apr 12, 2007
Hoe, hoe, hoe
Hard work is sweeter than the coffee you drink on break. But you may not know that yet.
By Garrison Keillor Jun 28, 2006
Let's save literature from the literati
Despite more gloom and doom on the Op-Ed pages, books have not been killed off by the "visual culture."
By Charles Taylor Jul 14, 2004
War zone
The author of "Kingdom of Shadows" picks four great books that transport you to the '30s and '40s.
By Alan Furst Feb 16, 2001
A preppy pantheon
The film director and author of "The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards" picks five essential books for the Bass Weejuns set.
By Whit Stillman Dec 22, 2000
Bad real estate
The author of "Layover" picks five great books about malevolent houses.
By Lisa Zeidner Dec 15, 2000
Small worlds
The author of "Election" and "Joe College" picks five great books set in places where everyone knows everyone else's business.
By Tom Perrotta Dec 8, 2000
Priscilla Becker
The poet and schoolteacher reads about the harsh reality in childhood drawings and offers "a translation from English to English."
Read by Priscilla Becker Dec 5, 2000
Mixing it up
The author of "One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race" picks five books in which racial lines go blurry.
By Scott Malcomson Dec 1, 2000
Winging it
The author of "Watch Your Mouth" and "The Bad Beginning" picks five great books with "bird" in the title.
By Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket Nov 17, 2000
Only connect
The author of "Gap Creek" picks five great books of linked stories.
By Robert Morgan Nov 3, 2000
Reading to kids: Is nothing sacred?
By Amy Halloran
  Nov 2, 2000
Is nothing sacred?
It turns out that reading aloud to your child is a violent act.
By Amy Halloran Oct 30, 2000
Pop before rock
The rock critic and author of "Christgau's Consumer Guides" picks six great books about the history of popular music.
By Robert Christgau Oct 27, 2000
Muscle
The author of "The Night Inspector" and "Don't Tell Anyone" picks five story collections with ideal physiques.
By Frederick Busch Oct 13, 2000
Living color
The critic and author of "Don't the Moon Look Lonesome" picks eight great books that get race right.
By Stanley Crouch Oct 6, 2000
South of the border
The author of "Latinos: A Biography of the People" picks five great works of Mexican literature.
By Earl Shorris Sep 29, 2000
Bummer lit
The author of "A Map of the World" picks five great books about depressed teenagers.
By Jane Hamilton Sep 21, 2000
Gratuitous advice
The author of "Blind Ambition: The White House Years" and former counsel to President Nixon picks five favorite nonfiction books for the next POTUS to read.
By John W. Dean Sep 15, 2000
Not seen on TV
The author of "The Browser's Ecstasy" picks five 19th century novels that "Masterpiece Theatre" missed.
By Geoffrey O'Brien Sep 8, 2000
Retro chic
The author of "Love Invents Us" and "A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You" picks five great books that are way out of fashion.
By Amy Bloom Sep 1, 2000
Count on it
The author of "The Girl in the Flammable Skirt" picks five great books that play with numbers.
By Aimee Bender Aug 25, 2000
Chained
The author of "The 27th City" picks five great American novels about slavery.
By Jonathan Franzen Aug 18, 2000
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