Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme-

Collects essays that look at J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" through a philosophical approach.

When they were too impoverished to raise their families, ancient Sumerians sold their children into bondage. Slave women in Rome faced never-ending household dr

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Selected by Time as One of the Ten Best Books

Originally published: New York: V Publishing, 2012, as: Chameleon on a kaleidoscope.