Tamas in our time
Ancient texts often resonate with startling relevance. Teaching the Bhagavad-Gita for the first time in many years, I read the following pas...
Reading in the news
American reading habits
Slow down and read
Advice for students
Covering v. uncovering
What does it mean to "cover" a century in a semester?
Freshman reading
A reluctance to read
Dana Gioia's message to graduates
Read.
Fire and Knowledge
Interview on reading
The inverse power of praise
"You're so smart!"
"A lot out there is conspiring to distract you"
More on continuous partial attention and reading habits : I recently spoke with a junior who was stressed about her decreasing ability to f...
Freshmen surveyed
Books are a load of crap. Philip Larkin, "A Study of Reading Habits" "The 2007 Na...
Richard Rorty on the value of literature
The inspirational value Rorty claims for literature lies in its capacity to "make people think there is more to this life than they ever ima...
Readers and writers
From a supercomputing glossary
Proust
In Search of Lost Time, the first time through
Zadie Smith on reading
Great observation on what it means to really be a reader
Words from Robert Fitzgerald
From the Postscript to his translation of the Odyssey
George Steiner on reading
In his essay "The end of bookishness?" George Steiner anticipates the near-disappearance of what he calls "classical reading," reading that ...
American reading habits
Depressing statistics on reading
Proust again
On reading, an excerpt from Swann's Way
Words, mere words
On the value of language
Mark Edmondson tells it like it is
Excerpt from Why Read?
N'allez pas trop vite
On the value of reading Proust