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Topic: Readers and Reading (page 7)

Heart of darkness: On the twisted trail of orangutans and humans in Borneo

Body holds and B.F. Skinner: How a teacher survived her first year

The fine art of navel-gazing: Ann Beattie picks five great books about self-consciousness

Don George: Favorite guidebooks old and new

Michael Korda: A power editor picks his favorite novels of the past 40 years

Web of love: Returning to "Charlotte's Web" as an adult brings back a child's world of innocence, justice and mercy

Peter Trachtenberg

Health Log: Novel experiences: Research shows that people think they've lived what they've only read in fiction

Don George: Paris comfort food -- "A Moveable Feast" revisited

The greatest travel books -- the readers respond

Book Bag: John Updike picks the five greatest novels about love

the editors of Salon Books

Don George: The top 10 travel books of the century

Pauline Kael picks five favorite movie books

Pushing the envelope: "In Search of Adventure" celebrates wanderlust

Book Bag: Gore Vidal picks his five favorite postwar novels (including one by ... Gore Vidal)

"Kite Strings of the Southern Cross": A young woman's odyssey of passion and possibility

Pete Hamill picks five favorite sports novels

"Haunted Traveller": Barry Yourgrau's Borgesian tales of transformation

Surreal riches: Four excerpts from "Haunted Traveller"

Book Bag: Richard Powers picks five post-colonial novels that push English to the limit

Book bag: Living in Japan -- the best expatriate books

Steve Erickson recommends five seriously weird L.A. novels

Book Bag: Frances Mayes on how her amazing success has changed her life

David Foster Wallace (Hachette Book Group)

Book Bag: David Foster Wallace picks five neglected masterpieces

David Foster Wallace

Book Bag: Don George on Lonely Planet's reissue of Eric Newby's classics

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