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.
  • 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.
  • Kurt Vonnegut reads from "Slaughterhouse-Five"

    A five-minute audio clip of Kurt Vonnegut reading from his masterpiece.
  • Hoe, hoe, hoe

    Hard work is sweeter than the coffee you drink on break. But you may not know that yet.
  • 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."
  • War zone

    The author of "Kingdom of Shadows" picks four great books that transport you to the '30s and '40s.
  • 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.
  • Bad real estate

    The author of "Layover" picks five great books about malevolent houses.
  • Small worlds

    The author of "Election" and "Joe College" picks five great books set in places where everyone knows everyone else's business.
  • Priscilla Becker

    The poet and schoolteacher reads about the harsh reality in childhood drawings and offers "a translation from English to English."
  • Mixing it up

    The author of "One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race" picks five books in which racial lines go blurry.
  • Winging it

    The author of "Watch Your Mouth" and "The Bad Beginning" picks five great books with "bird" in the title.
  • Only connect

    The author of "Gap Creek" picks five great books of linked stories.
  • Reading to kids: Is nothing sacred?

    By Amy Halloran
  • Is nothing sacred?

    It turns out that reading aloud to your child is a violent act.
  • Pop before rock

    The rock critic and author of "Christgau's Consumer Guides" picks six great books about the history of popular music.
  • Muscle

    The author of "The Night Inspector" and "Don't Tell Anyone" picks five story collections with ideal physiques.
  • Living color

    The critic and author of "Don't the Moon Look Lonesome" picks eight great books that get race right.
  • South of the border

    The author of "Latinos: A Biography of the People" picks five great works of Mexican literature.
  • Bummer lit

    The author of "A Map of the World" picks five great books about depressed teenagers.
  • 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.
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