A gallery of readers
To celebrate World Book Day, please visit this image gallery by the photographer Steve McCurry, a beautiful...
Podcast review – Molly Peacock’s Paper Garden
Listening time: 12 minutes. This is a biography of an artist written by a poet. It's also a...
On the Elizabethans and book learning
I have no idea if this is a fair appraisal of the Elizabethan stance on book learning, but I have...
Reading to live more intensely
Reading allows you to meet people, places, periods and perspectives you might never otherwise encounter, intensifying your experience of life. ...
How to read a book in a language you don’t know (II)
I love children's books and their illustrations, and often buy second-hand at this or that flea-market. By now, we have...
Librarian as satrap
Having known nothing but kindness among librarians, this striking description of a martinet guarding his books almost at the point...
Book as mirror I
A great riposte, of course, and true to a large extent. Having dismissed a book, it sometimes happens that I...
Why read literature?
‘Why read literature? Because it enriches life in ways that nothing else quite can. It makes us more human.’
I'm...
A capacious book thief
Steinbeck and Robert Capa spent a month in the Soviet Union. It took some time for Steinbeck to cotton on...
Reading as road
Another metaphor describing how this young boy was progressing as his older brother taught him to read and write in...
How to read a book in a language you don’t know (I)
When Luiz went to Brazil recently, I gave him a copy of a Caroline story for his two great-nieces. Most...
Two years and counting!
WritingRedux was launched in 2016 on the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth which happens to be Saint Jordi's Day in Spain,...
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