The Bear in Helsinki The bear heads abroad again, this time to Finland, where even a groundbreaking art exhibit can’t distract him from the cans of bear meat on grocery store shelves. A gallery of photographs from our smallest correspondent.

How I Became a Teacher Ron Clark may have cornered the market on strategies for classroom control, but it takes a different brand of strong-arming to really get results. As delivered to our writer, the first installment of excerpts from a book whose author cannot be named for obvious reasons.

Birnbaum v. Jennifer Finney Boylan Our Boston correspondent Robert Birnbaum chats with novelist Jennifer Finney Boylan about going on Oprah, the differences between being a female writer versus a male writer, and her best-selling book about becoming the woman she always was.

Knee-Jerk Notes on New Fiction To properly find a new book to read takes a great deal of time and energy. Barring that, one might as well resort to scanning the shelves with gut instinct. And that’s exactly what Claire Miccio does with the current crop of fiction.