As Hurricane Milton barrelled toward Florida last month, I taught a three-hour Zoom class and tried not to refresh my phone for updates. I grew up in Florida, and my parents, along... Read more »
Sir Jonathan Bate, a professor of English literature at Oxford, this week voiced his concern at the “attrition of attention span”, as witnessed through his undergraduates’ inability to keep up with reading... Read more »
Charlotte Wood, author Lioness, the latest from New Zealander Emily Perkins, is about social aspiration and the traps lying in wait for women when money and marriage menacingly collide. Perkins is one... Read more »
As part of The Guardian’s “what we’re reading” series, we would like to hear about the books you’ve particularly enjoyed this month. Have you read a book in recent weeks – fiction... Read more »
The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the “archival revolution” due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact. With a storyteller’s sensibility, Cristina Vatulescu identifies and takes... Read more »
Book News: More than a third of UK adults have given up reading for pleasure, study finds
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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 »
Why do we love to read life writing? The answer seems to have as much to do with others as ourselves. At its best, life writing offers a heady compound of insight... 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 »