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Kara Swisher with a lesson for young people on the value of risk-taking and digital responsibility.

I wish I had Highlights for iOS and iPadOS when I was a lawyer. Back then, it wasn’t unusual for me to review PDFs of legal documents that were hundreds of pages long. Unfortunately, the digital tools I had for annotating those documents were primitive. So instead, I typically fell back on marking up hard

Philip Roth reviews his own biographer

Welcome to May, reporters! I recently used a tool called Hypothes.is, which allows you to make annotations on live webpages. That’s not a new idea by any means, but what stuck out to me was that you can send it to collaborators very easily. When you annotate a webpage, it create a custom link, starting with “https://via.hypothes.is/”, that you send to other people.

Reading Progress is designed to improve reading skills.

Artist Heather Benjamin discusses the importance of homemade zines, why she continues to switch up her process, the complications of running your own business, and why art school wasn't useful.

Literary Lingo While serving in World War II, Joseph Heller concluded that war was a farce in which anyone crazy enough to shirk combat was considered sane enough to fight. That became the theme of…

When a book passes into the public domain, it means not only that it’s available for adapting and remixing, but for reprinting and reselling with a brand new cover. Some of these covers are .…

“To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform.”

The activist and linguist has serious concerns about the future of American democracy, although, in his view, it “was never much to write home about.”

"It was weird and very scary"

A virtual semester showed college students the value of community

Student-led mutual aid networks have raised tens of thousands of dollars to help peers cover basic costs of living.

“This is a work of criticism. If it were literary criticism, everyone would immediately understand the underlying purpose is positive. A critic of literature examines a work, analyzing its features, evaluating its qualities, seeking a deeper appreciation that might be useful to other readers of the same text. In a similar way, critics of music, […]

The future of remote learning with Sal Khan of Khan Academy.

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