A LITTLE DEBATE

the little mouse who could

For those of us who juggle the academic/journalist worlds, it's hard not to marvel at the greatness that is Jill Lepore, one of the best writers at the New Yorker and a professor of history at Harvard. In this week's issue (cover controversy? What cover controversy?) she writes an absolutely fascinating piece about the history behind E.B. White's Stuart Little and the machinations of a prominent New York Public Library librarian to squash the book by any means necessary. Read this.

--O.W.