Reading

"The Wind in the Willows" at 100 "The Wind in the Willows" at 100

Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger kept me up late reading as a kid. Now I love Kenneth Grahame's classic even more.
By Gary Kamiya Dec 16, 2008

  • 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 January 30, 2008

  • Kurt Vonnegut reads from "Slaughterhouse-Five"

    A five-minute audio clip of Kurt Vonnegut reading from his masterpiece.
    April 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 June 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 July 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 February 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 December 22, 2000

  • Bad real estate

    The author of "Layover" picks five great books about malevolent houses.
    By Lisa Zeidner December 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 December 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 December 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 December 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 November 17, 2000

  • Only connect

    The author of "Gap Creek" picks five great books of linked stories.
    By Robert Morgan November 3, 2000

  • Reading to kids: Is nothing sacred?

    By Amy Halloran
    By   November 2, 2000

  • Is nothing sacred?

    It turns out that reading aloud to your child is a violent act.
    By Amy Halloran October 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 October 27, 2000

  • Muscle

    The author of "The Night Inspector" and "Don't Tell Anyone" picks five story collections with ideal physiques.
    By Frederick Busch October 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 October 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 September 29, 2000

  • Bummer lit

    The author of "A Map of the World" picks five great books about depressed teenagers.
    By Jane Hamilton September 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 September 15, 2000
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