From TLS, a review of Diary of a Bad Year and Inner Workings: Essays 2000–2005 by J. M. Coetzee; and fifty years after the publication of Ian Watt's seminal work, The Rise of the Novel, a look back to a review of this "penetrating study of the intellectual and social conditions which produced a new literary form". The novel that On the Road became was inarguably the book that young people needed in 1957, but the sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version for our time, and a review of Why Kerouac Matters (The Lessons of On the Road (They’re Not What You Think) by John Leland (and more and more). A revisit to Jack Kerouac's On the Road on its 50th anniversary reveals a man more suited to the role of a romantic than the epitome of cool. 

From Smithsonian, Pride of the Realm: An extraordinary collection of

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