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As a result of his reporting of McCandless’ passionate and foolhardy journey into transcendence—and writing about his own, equivalent youthful encounters—Krakauer explores our modern-day romantic relationship for the wilderness plus the deep motivation numerous adolescents truly feel to seek out unthinkable danger.by Robert Kolker (Harper, 20

 by Stephen Sondheim (Knopf, 2010–11) An abundance of writers have gathered their lifetime’s work into two volumes and assessed it, but not a soul has carried out so with just as much wit, ruthless honesty, and good humor as Stephen Sondheim, which makes sense, due to the fact handful of writers’ work matches Sondheim’s in All those specif