Last night, the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, announced a £27.5m package for libraries. It’s the latest in a string of reading-focused government initiatives, the flagship being the education department’s National Year of... Read more »
This year marks 100 years since the first demonstration of television in London. Elizabeth II sent the first royal email in 1976. The first meeting of the Lancashire Association of Change Ringers took place... Read more »
Like many kids of the VHS generation, I must have watched my taped-off-the-telly copy of Disney’s Mary Poppins (1964) well over 100 times. I probably knew every frame as well as Walt... Read more »
Every Monday and Wednesday, dozens of migrants converge on a block of 34th Avenue in eastern Jackson Heights as part of the work of the Jackson Heights Immigrant Center (JHIC). They sit... Read more »
Book News: Freud’s writings get an update—30 years in the making
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Reading nights and avant-garde literary groups are rapidly emerging as platforms for younger generations to foster community and creatively share personal narratives â and one new series is making waves in New... Read more »
‘It’s a snowball effect’: the gen Z niche reading event making waves in New York Jul 05 2024 Reading nights and avant-garde literary groups are rapidly emerging as platforms for younger generations... Read more »
In early 2015, a couple of months after his mother died, David Baddiel wrote to his younger brother, Dan, a sometime taxi driver in New York, setting out his plans for âa... Read more »
How is popular knowledge of war shaped by the stories we consume, what are the boundaries of this knowledge, and how are these boundaries policed or contested by journalists producing knowledge from... Read more »