Posts Tagged ‘reading’
2017: Last Year’s Reading
Longer than a tweet, faster than a Fox News lie, here are some of the books of the year — read, re-read, and not-so-red in the Age of Trumpty-Dumpty.
Read MoreDesperately Seeking Readers
Reading is in big trouble, says critic Alex Good. CanLit, he adds, may be in even bigger trouble.
Read MoreThe Young and the Restless, and Laura Kipnis
“Feminist students protest feminist prof for writing about feminism”: the Laura Kipnis story.
Read MoreCliffhanger
Stan Persky checks out a new book that asks, “Should we read in the digital age?”
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 MoreThe Decline of Reading: QED
… or the decline of looting?
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