Unexpected ignorance, unexpected knowledge
Maggie Tulliver is a girl whose brightness and spirit are constantly curtailed and nearly crushed. Throughout her childhood she is...
Reading as grand occasion
This is Machiavelli and I like the way he treats reading as a majestic occasion, leaving aside his working clothes...
A café in Porto
I have never been to this café but would love to spend a morning there writing postcards and reading newspapers....
Reading as travel
The Rat is a street-savvy kid in a barely known children's book by the author of the infinitely famous
A gallery of readers
To celebrate World Book Day, this superb image by the photographer Steve McCurry, which was part of a beautiful series...
Poetry as connector
Since good poetry (good writing, for that matter) transcends time, I liked this phrase of Molly Peacock, a Canadian poet,...
Now we are six
As we approach the 6th birthday of WritingRedux, I've cast my mind back to the year I turned six and...
A sensible sort of room
The boy slips out of a deadly dull afternoon tea in which two ladies are talking about clothing. He finds...
The history of books
An idea so intrinsic to reading books, particularly those you love and remember, that I had never consciously thought of...
Reading as road
Another metaphor describing how this young boy was progressing as his older brother taught him to read and write in...
Truly cultured, at last!
Although I never lose the desire for books, there have been moments when I felt overwhelmed by the unread ones, whether...
Beware educated peasants
Naive readers may imagine that an ideology ostensibly serving the masses might have been glad to encounter an educated peasant. ...
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