Good or bad, long or short, about wizards or vampires, successful young adult novels make their fans go crazy. Really, really nuts.

Poems by a tortured word wolf.

Perfecting the college essay.

Full disclosure: I am not exactly what you’d call “qualified” to write about Justice John Paul Stevens’s public lecture on Tuesday, October 11th. I was definitely there.

Looking at the Cannon Club application, we expected to find a boring series of blanks waiting to be dutifully filled out; we were greeted instead by an ambiguous little document that contained, yes, several boring blanks, but also plenty of intriguing blanks that deserved some unpacking.