When you think of book censorship, where do you imagine it happening? Libraries and schools, most likely — but incarcerated people face an even more restricted environment in prison. There’s little ...
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Have You Listened to a Good Book Lately?
Listening to books is a very good thing. But neurologically, heuristically, experientially and emotionally, listening to a ...
Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become ...
A few weeks into my freshman year of college, I received in the mail a Penguin Classics paperback copy of “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes. It had been sent to me by my father. This was weird, ...
Last month, Rose Horowitch wrote the article “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books,” which sparked a lot of debate. Professors told Horowitch that their students felt overwhelmed at the ...
The experiment was simple; so too, you may have thought, was the task. Students of literature at two American universities were given the first paragraphs of “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens and asked ...
Sarah J. Maas, Freida McFadden and Emily Henry –– can these popular authors join forces and save the day against a dangerous decline in reading for enjoyment? Daily reading for pleasure has plummeted ...
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