Best of Rhode Island 2008 Editors' Picks

Providence's candy shop for those whose sugar comes in the forms of linguistic expression. A day is never better spent than in the aisles of Symposium Books, head-high and above with novels, biographical tomes, glossy art books, collector's comic books and stories for kids. Nothing rivals their selection of academic discourse though: Peruse your way from Sartre to Sontag and the world will never look the same way again.