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The Life and Death of Words, People, and Even Nature: From Walking Libraries and a God Named “Word” to What Sherlock Holmes Never Said. Passages excerpted from Eduardo Galeano’s new book, Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History (Nation Books).
They may not all be beach reading, but this clutch of books will keep any reader busy--working or not--in the doleful last days of summer.
Tracing the history of an idea, the author charts liberalism’s two century Jekyll and Hyde existence as a credo on freedom and an ill-fitting defender of mass democracy.
Research data from 160,000 adults in 31 countries concludes that a sizeable home library gave teen school leavers skills equivalent to university graduates who didn’t read
Reader Comments: Families Belong Together; Rule of Law; Spectre Haunting Capitalism; Anthony Bourdain; Police; Maritime Jobs; Breast Cancer; Unions at Amazon; Resources: Broadsides for the Trump Era; Huge Book Sale from Monthly Review; Labor Notes
At the Antiquarian Book Fair, gastronomical books are among the show-stoppers
The author queries the existence of bad readers, linking causes not to illiteracy or injuries of class or the diffusion of mass culture, but to a Cold War literary trend sporting "an abundance of paraliterary works," such as memoirs, diaries, biographies, diplomatic studies, and feature reports as primers for engaging with literary texts as seemingly historically accurate yet stressing outcomes and expectations consonant with systemic social ends.
Illiteracy rates are high in Chicago, and Open Books is working to fill the void.
Inspired by the rhythms of American folk music, this moving account of Seeger’s life teaches kids of every generation that no cause is too small and no obstacle too large if, together, you stand up and sing!
In honor of Women’s History Month, here is a list of ten recommended history books on Black women in the United States.
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