<em>Atlantic</em> Readers on Reading (and Rereading) <em>Slaughterhouse-Five</em>
“If you are troubled by your life, your relationships, politics, cruelty in the world, turning 50, global warming, that’s why you need to read this book.”
The Meaning of Slaughterhouse-Five, 50 Years Later
“Fifty years have passed since the publication of Slaughterhouse-Five,” James Parker wrote last month. “It’s the same age as me. And the older I get, and the more lumps fall off my brain, the more I find that rereading is the thing.”
Like James Parker, I delight in the rereading of , which I do every year with my high-school class of
