The appeal of the boarding-school bildungsroman is contradictory. The classics of the genre, at least in its modern incarnation, aren’t really about the privilege that permeates the setting. Indeed, ...

We were supposed to meet this morning?” asked Dyer, standing in the shaded portico of Headmaster Wolfe’s residence, the humid Massachusetts air on him like a quilt. “Agreed,” said Edward Wolfe with ...

The post Johnny Marr Gives Virtual Guitar Lesson on The Smiths’ “The Headmaster Ritual”: Watch appeared first on Consequence of Sound. As part of Fender’s ongoing “Artist Check-In” series, Marr ...

Johnny Marr performed a stripped-down, instrumental take on the Smiths‘ “The Headmaster Ritual,” then offered a virtual guitar lesson as part of Fender’s ongoing Artist Check-In series. The clip opens ...

First rule: Write what you know. With a name like Taylor Antrim, he might know his way around a boarding school. As "The Official Preppy Handbook" so aptly stated in 1980, a great prep-school name is ...

When Christopher Buckley, the reigning king of satirical novels, says your debut is "the best novel set in a boarding school since 'A Separate Peace,'" consider yourself anointed. But when he adds, as ...

Bad news, thought James, standing inside the door to Weiss Hall, staring at a printed sheet of room assignments on the bulletin board. He traced a line with his fingernail under his name to the room ...

Political radicalism, boarding school cruelty and the specter of a showdown with a nuclear North Korea fuel Antrim's debut novel with mostly winning results. Fleeing job and girlfriend disasters, Dyer ...