Tag: Reading
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Kanye West, Sam Bankman-Fried, and the Cult of Not Reading – The Atlantic
Many books should not have been published, and writing one is an excruciating process full of failure. But when a book succeeds, even partially, it represents a level of concentration and refinement—a mastery of subject and style strengthened through patience and clarified in revision—that cannot be equaled. Writing a book is an extraordinarily disproportionate act:…
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John Battelle’s Search Blog In Defense of Writing (and Reading, and Conversation)
Not often does a New York Times’ OpEd rouse me to respond – but this one certainly did: I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. The author, Joe Cruz, is the chair of the philosophy department and the program on cognitive science at Williams College. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy……
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The Book That Changed My Life review – these joyful tales of the power of reading are TV magic | Television & radio | The Guardian
tackling Wuthering Heights “one word, one word, one word” at a time until suddenly the chaos of her classroom fell away and “it’s snowing. I’m on a moor.” — Read on www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/oct/14/the-book-that-changed-my-life-review-bbc-two-iplayer
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Treat your to-read pile like a river | Oliver Burkeman
this means treating your “to read” pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it). Coming at life this way definitely entails tough choices. But it’s liberating, too, as you slowly begin…
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Reading Maps – Maps & Travel Routes from Books & Films
Reading Maps plots real-world journeys from classic novels and films – Around the World in 80 Days, Heart of Darkness, James Bond, On the Road – on an interactive atlas. — Read on readingmaps.com/
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The End of Reading Is Here – The Atlantic
Maryanne Wolf, a cognitive neuroscientist at UCLA, argues that people are losing the ability to think deeply about writing. That doesn’t mean they are forgetting how to decode individual words. Rather, they are losing the higher-order abilities of comprehension and synthesis. America, in other words, isn’t illiterate. It’s postliterate. — Read on www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-postliterate-age/687618/
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Le déclin de la lecture face à l’avénement des écrans marque-t-il la fin de l’ère démocratique ?
Les non-lecteurs – ceux qui ne lisent aucun livre par an – sont en forte augmentation. Ils représentent aujourd’hui près d’un Français sur trois. Au premier trimestre de cette année, l’industrie de l’édition a accusé un recul de 6,5 % par rapport à la même période de 2025. Quant à l’emprunt régulier en bibliothèque, il a…
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What it is like to read Proust – by Henry Oliver
The quest was all—the journey of moral redemption was a tale—then the tale became domesticated—and then it went into the interior. The interior quest is exemplified by Proust, but it was perfected, too, by Henry James. In reading Henry James, I had been learning to read Proust. Reading Proust in spurts and intervals is like…