Failing Upwards

Recommended Reading: Anything that Vivian Gornick writes. Here’s an essay from The New York Times on how literature ages and rereading E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End. Our own Lydia Keisling also wrote a fantastic piece on the Forster classic.

Is Findings.com a “social network that may actually make you smarter”?

Is it unethical to read J.D. Salinger’s leaked short stories? Chuck Klosterman answers this question in the Ethicist and concludes that you can read without worry. “You can’t put smoke back into a cigarette. These stories exist on the Internet, and they won’t disappear.”