Posts Tagged ‘literacy’
The Young and the Restless, and Laura Kipnis
“Feminist students protest feminist prof for writing about feminism”: the Laura Kipnis story.
Read MoreThe Mother-in-Law Joke
Stephen Marche thinks it’s the Golden Age of reading and writing. Howard Jacobson thinks readers are disappearing and fiction is “fooked” (as they say in England). Stan Persky investigates.
Read MoreWhen Atoms Collide
Stephen Greenblatt tells the story of a Renaissance book-hunter’s trip to the library. Stan Persky looks at Greenblatt’s “The Swerve” and the pushback from its critics.
Read MoreNation Shudders at Large Block of Uninterrupted Text
Good grief! What does it mean?
Read MoreWhat Good Are Books?
Rick Salutin thinks we could do with a lot less book-reading.
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