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.ad-slot-no-title:before { display: none; } <iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-M6LKQZ" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe> When the Public Feared That Library Books Could Spread Deadly DiseasesBy Joseph Hayes smithsonian.com August 23, 2019 “The great book scare” created a panic that you could catch an..

The Unlikely History of Faber & FaberBy Jonathan Galassi The New Yorker July 23, 2019 The poet and dramatist T. S. Eliot helped make Faber & Faber the home of literary modernism. Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt / The LIFE Images Collection / Getty A literary publishing house is a strange beast—a business, yes, but also less and more than one. Publishers sometimes develop ex..

Reading Lessons You never stop learning how to read — probably because you also never stop forgetting how to read. <img width="1680" height="980" src="https://longreadsblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/readinglessons_v5.jpg?w=1680" class="attachment-featured-large size-featured-large wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://longreadsblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/readingles..

One of the World’s Oldest Reading Rooms at the University of Oxfordby memolition · Built in 1487, Duke Humfrey’s Library is the oldest reading room in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. Duke Humfrey’s Library is named after Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, a younger son of Henry IV of England. He was a connoisseur of literature and commissio..

"디지털시대 종이책 몰락 우려는 기우였다”“디지털시대 종이책 몰락 우려는 기우였다”케임브리지대 존 톰슨 교수 ‘출판 세미나’ 참석 / 전자책, 도서의 여러 포맷 중 하나 / 주로 로맨스 픽션 분야 디지털화 / 인문사회 서적은 이동 크지 않아 / 자가출판, 오디오북 크게 일어날 것세..

Books History is made from ideas — but are ideas becoming history? Out of Our Minds: A History of What We Think and How We Think by Felipe Fernández-Armesto reviewed Philip MarsdenSpectator USA, June 27, 2019 Out of Our Minds: A History of What We Think and How We Think Felipe Fernández-ArmestoUniversity of California Press, pp.480, $26.87 Wallace Stevens called it ‘the..

How Einstein’s science defied nationalism and crossed borders By Kitty Ferguson The Washington Post, June 20 Kitty Ferguson is the author of the biography “Stephen Hawking: A Life Well Lived” and “The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God.” Albert Einstein, shown in 1934, developed his theory of general relativity in World War I Berlin, mos..

"6·25는 힘이 아닌 싸울 의지를 시험한 전쟁이었다"조선일보 이한수 기자 입력 2019.06.22 03:01 6·25전쟁 참전 美 군인인 저자, 증언과 문서·신문 자료 바탕해 인천상륙작전 등 자세히 묘사 매티스 전 국방장관이 추천한 책 이런 전쟁｜T.R.페렌바크 지음｜최필영·윤상용 옮김｜플래닛미디..

Book Reviews - Summer 2019 What Makes Us BetterTwo books explore whether morality is innate or learned By Sissela Bok | American Scholar, June 3, 2019 Flickr/stevo44 Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition by Patricia S. Churchland; Norton, 226 pp., $27.95 The War For Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World by Jamil Zaki; Crown, 261 pp., $27 These two new books give..

Page-TurnerThe Invention of the “Beach Read”By Katy Waldman The New Yorker, June 14, 2019 A new book unpacks how “summer reading” became a category unto itself. Photograph by Martin Parr / Magnum Summer reading—so much expectation and anxiety and judgment is compressed within those two words! June hardly has a chance to throw on a bikini and step onto the deck before ..