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Rediscovering the Lost Power of Reading Aloud Meghan Cox Gurdon Traces the History of Oral Storytelling By Meghan Cox GurdonLiterary Hub, January 22, 2020 Reading silently was once considered outlandish. Reading aloud is one of the oldest and grandest traditions of humankind At the British Museum in London, down a long string of galleries filled with Greek antiquities, there i..

It is absolutely fine to rip your books in halfWe treat books like sacred objects. They’re not. They’re value-neutral delivery systems. By Constance Grady@constancegradyVoxJan 21, 2020, 3:40pm EST Copies of The New English Dictionary on Historical Principles edited by Sir James Murray line shelves in the Lee Library of the British Academy, September 2017 in London, England...

Back to the Land Wendell Berry in the path of modernity George ScialabbaBaffler, January 2020 © Mills Brown Wendell Berry: Essays 1969-1990, ed. Jack Shoemaker, Library of America, 841 pp., $37.50. Wendell Berry: Essays 1993-2017, ed. Jack Shoemaker, Library of America, 859 pp., $37.50. An antimodernist is someone who stands in the path of progress and yells “Stop!” Of c..

Tradition and InventionBy Elisheva Carlebach Winter 2020 The Jewish Political Tradition, Volume 3: Communityedited by Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, and Noam J. Zohar; coedited by Madeline Kochen Yale University Press 696 pp., $65 The idea that Jews had a tradition of political thought, as well as an active political life that continued in various shapes and forms over t..

GEORGE STEINMETZ Show Hide image The books to read in 2020 From the planet’s last days to Thomas Cromwell’s: a 2020 reading list. By Tom Gatti New Statesman America8 January 2020 As we begin the new decade with wildfires ravaging Australia, it’s hard not to feel that we are edging closer to Armageddon – and a glance at the books being published in 2020 is anything but ..

The world is not enoughGuessing at the game God is playingBy samuel graydonTLS January 3, 2020 Illustration showing a plane wave (upper right) passing through a screen with two gaps | © RUSSELL KIGHTLEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYSIX IMPOSSIBLE THINGSThe ‘quanta of solace’ and the mysteries of the subatomic world 112pp. Icon. £9.99.John Gribbin EINSTEIN’S UNFINISHED REVOLUT..

How Will History Books Remember the 2010s? We asked 23 top historians to write the paragraph that will describe the past decade, 100 years from now. Illustration by Max-o-matic; Photos: AP/Getty By POLITICO MAGAZINE 12/27/2019 05:03 AM EST .cms-textAlign-left{text-align:left;}.cms-textAlign-center{text-align:center;}.cms-textAlign-right{text-align:right;}.cms-magazineStyles-sma..

.ob_vid_header {display:none; font-family:undefined} The 2010s were supposed to bring the ebook revolution. It never quite came Publishing spent the 2010s fighting tooth and nail against ebooks. There were unintended consequences By Constance GradyVox, Dec 23, 2019, 10:00am EST An Amazon Kindle reader in Sao Paulo, Brazil on March 15, 2013. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images..

The Ultimate Best Books of 2019 List Popularity? It is glory's small change.By Emily TempleLiterary Hub, December 11, 2019 ‘Tis the season—of hot apple cider, gifts, and of course most importantly, love and family best-of year-end lists. After all, there seem to be more of them than just about anything else at the moment. So as is now tradition, I have collated every one I..

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