Scout & Atticus, together again.

• Position: LITERATURE - Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman - Brief article

Talk about a long vacation. Harper Lee will publish her second book in July--55 years after her classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird was published. Like Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman tackles racial tensions in the Jim Crow South and features Scout Finch--this time as an adult returning to fictional Maycomb, Alabama, to visit her father, Atticus. Lee, now 88, says she wrote Watchman before Mockingbird, but shelved it when her editor told her to focus on Scout's childhood. News about Watchman has been greeted with both excitement--pre-orders have made it No. 1 on Amazon's best-seller list--and controversy. Some think Lee, a recluse who has avoided the limelight, is being manipulated...