Tag: Reading
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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…
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Stop Meeting Students Where They Are – The Atlantic
The iterative process of confusion, endurance, and incremental understanding is what literature professors teach when they assign whole books. This march toward understanding doesn’t have a great name other than reading. We need to help students grow into the difficulty of reading. The best way to do that is not to “meet them where they…
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Stories Beyond Demographics – seeing stories in ourselves
The archetypal model, however, shifts our way of thinking. Instead of needing to adapt the story of Little Red-Cap (Red Riding Hood) to my own social and cultural norms so that I can see myself in the story, I am tasked with seeing the story play out in myself. How am I Riding Hood? How…
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The books I enjoyed most this year, 2025. – by Henry Oliver
In no special order and not necessarily published recently. — Read on www.commonreader.co.uk/p/the-books-i-enjoyed-most-this-year-4c3
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How harmful is the decline in long-form reading? – Marginal REVOLUTION
A second and more pessimistic diagnosis is that print and reading culture has been hanging by a thread, and current and pending technological advances are about to give that thread its final cut. The intellectual and cultural apocalypse is near. Even if your family thinks of itself as well-educated, your kids will grow up unable…
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Why Is Everyone Running In Rom-Coms?
In the modern day, we live in a world without a cosmic moral order, a framework of meaning to which everyone automatically subscribes. We had one for a while. But round about the year 1700, give or take a century, that framework started cracking, fragmenting, losing its authority, and the burden of finding meaning shifted…
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Meet the Aphantasics, Those Who Can’t See Mental Images
because the words prompted no mental images, it was almost as if reading bypassed the visual world altogether and tunnelled directly into their minds. Aphantasics might skip over descriptive passages in books — since description aroused no images in their minds, they found it dull — or, because of such passages, avoid fiction altogether. When…