Mark Oppenheimer is the author of a memoir, Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject to Debate. He also writes about religion for the New York Times and hosts Paper Trails, a radio show about books.

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  March/April 2011: The Race That Is Not About Winning
  We Need a Certain Kind of Teenage Antihero to Remind Us That We Are Not Alone.
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  February 2005: An Era of Awkward Repression
  Evan Connell’s Wasps, spent and repressed, offer the truest view of American alienation and uncertainty.