Nicholas Kristof can kiss my Appalachia
Dustin Kurtz
Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is never one to let details stand in the way of a good crusade, and this time around is no exception. It seems everybody’s favorite ham-fisted… Read more »
Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is never one to let details stand in the way of a good crusade, and this time around is no exception. It seems everybody’s favorite ham-fisted… Read more »
Thanks to this post on Flavorwire, I found out about an international project to promote literacy through redesigned covers of classic novels. Belgian design firm beshart has launched an effort to… Read more »
Let’s start with the facts: you read books. According to NEA surveys, about half of americans do not. But you are reading these very words on the website of a… 4 / Read more »
In Chile, a group calling itself Libros Sin IVA (Books Without VAT — “value added tax”) is petitioning the government to get rid of the 19% tax on books —… Read more »
It’s not just Fifty Shades of Grey: it seems that erotic literature is having a moment in Yemen, too. The Yemen Observer reports that street-side booksellers in Tahrir Square are… Read more »
In Brazil, prisoners are being given a pressing incentive to read: time knocked off their sentences. Reuters reports that four federal prisons, which hold some of the country’s most notorious… Read more »
It’s the 40th anniversary of the Prison Book Program, based in Qunicy, MA, said to be the oldest such book donation program in the country, according to this story in… Read more »
The BBC reported this week that the town of Bradford, England, will start an Imagination Library, following the lead of Rotherham and other towns in England and Scotland. Launched by… Read more »
If some commentators are to be believed, we’ll soon be barking nothing but txtspk at one another, such is the degeneration of the English language in the hands of yoofs.… Read more »
New research from the Sesame Workshop’s Joan Ganz Cooney Center suggests that enhanced e-books negatively affect reading comprehension, according to this report at Digital Book World. The report is the… Read more »