Your kids on books
Dennis Johnson
There aren’t enough pro-literacy campaigns any more if you ask me, but the literacy group Burning Through Pages seems likely to inspire a bunch. In fact, a new poster campaign… Read more »
There aren’t enough pro-literacy campaigns any more if you ask me, but the literacy group Burning Through Pages seems likely to inspire a bunch. In fact, a new poster campaign… Read more »
Tom Tivnan reports in The Bookseller that Worldreader — often called ‘the e-reader NGO’ — has just beta launched an app that will enable owners of ‘dumb’ phones to… Read more »
Forty-five years ago Oxford University Press published the first edition of William H. McNeill’s survey, A World History. It’s still in print. Now in its fourth edition, the book has… Read more »
We’re familiar with the argument: the modern age is bankrupting our attention spans, we are all technology-addled morons clicking semi-consciously between browser screens, unable to complete the simplest of tasks:… 3 / Read more »
This can’t be true: According to this year’s edition of the annual survey of American literacy from Central Connecticut State University, none other than Washington D.C. is, for the second year… 1 / Read more »
Listen up all you lollygagging parents of toddlers out there. With all the cognitive research in, it’s time to start taking that bedtime story a little more seriously. Reading to… 2 / Read more »
Word Up, the pop-up volunteer-run bookstore in Washington Heights, might be a more permanent fixture in the neighborhood if the shop’s creators are able to negotiate a new agreement with… 2 / Read more »
Ever eager to jump on board with a no-brainer of a free idea, public idiot and Mayor of London Boris Johnson has announced his support for book-sharing schemes to be… 1 / Read more »
Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review, has written a delightful list of the great works of literature he has not read: I have never got through Henry Green’s Living or Concluding, though neither… 1 / Read more »
A few years back, Bob Harris at The New York Times presented the Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing, with “compelling” being one of the Serious Offenders of the Written Word, and Lake Superior State University… 1 / Read more »