Will reading make you rich?
Researchers claim reading fiction bestows marketable skills. That's not really what it's for ...
Friday, Jun 21, 2013 11:44 AM UTC 18Entertainment Books, Readers and Reading
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How werewolf erotica found its way to prison
A hardened prisoner was comfortable enough reading werewolf romances that he sued for the right -- and won
Thursday, Jun 13, 2013 12:00 AM UTCEntertainment Books, Readers and Reading
“Most contemporary literary fiction is terrible”
An acclaimed writer wants his students to read more new fiction. They shouldn't. Most of it is really bad
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 3:36 PM UTC 129Entertainment Books, Fiction, Literary fiction
Sneaky author tricks
A novel within a novel is a clever touch, but are postmodern writers abusing their readers' patience?
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 11:45 AM UTC 14Entertainment Books, Fiction, Postmodernism
Back to the Round Table
Audiobooks helped me find the time to reread T.H. White's magnificent "The Once and Future King"
Thursday, Mar 7, 2013 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment The Listener, Audiobooks, Fiction
Sorry, the short story boom is bogus
The New York Times touts the Internet's role in reviving interest in short fiction. Too bad it's not true
Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 31Entertainment Fiction, New York Times
PJ O’Rourke: We live in an age of “1984″-lite
The writer examines the five satires that have most influenced the way he sees the world
Monday, Oct 22, 2012 11:30 AM UTC 10Entertainment political satire, humor
So many books, so little time
A son talks about the books he and his mother chose to read during the last months of her life
Wednesday, Sep 26, 2012 6:33 PM UTCEntertainment Will Schwalbe, Death and Dying
Your brain loves Jane Austen
An English professor measures the brain activity of readers, and finds we respond differently when reading for fun
Wednesday, Sep 19, 2012 4:05 PM UTCEntertainment Readers and Reading
Can babies read?
YouTube now overflows with videos of tykes "reading" books, but whether they should is another story
Wednesday, Sep 12, 2012 4:08 PM UTCLife Babies, Neuroscience
Who’s to blame for NPR’s super-white book list?
Critics attacked the the organization and its audience when a recent book poll skewed white
Monday, Sep 10, 2012 9:13 PM UTC 41Entertainment White people, NPR
The case for positive book reviews
Misguided nostalgia drives a call for negative literary criticism. No one needs middling reviews of mediocre books
Friday, Aug 17, 2012 1:30 PM UTC 27Entertainment Books, Criticism
Click here or we’ll burn this book
Is threatening to torch books the only way we can get people to care about them anymore?
Thursday, Jun 28, 2012 12:00 AM UTC 11Entertainment Libraries and librarians
Can you identify?
Science shows that the only way around some readers' prejudices is to trick them
Thursday, May 17, 2012 12:00 AM UTC 43Entertainment Readers and Reading, Gay Rights
Reading, revolutionized
A poet/book artist and a programmer team up to create a book that unites the traditional and the electronic
Monday, Apr 16, 2012 12:00 AM UTCEntertainment Imprint, Readers and Reading
Stories don’t need morals or messages
A "stupid" test shows that the Puritan ethic lives on. Why do we insist on learning lessons from the books we read?
Tuesday, Jan 31, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 73Entertainment Readers and Reading, Education
Reader responses: Books you want banned
On Wednesday, we asked which books you think kids should never have to read in school. Here's what you said
Friday, Sep 30, 2011 8:59 PM UTC 54Entertainment Readers and Reading
What did you really read this summer?
As August ends, Arthur Phillips, Laura Hillenbrand, Lev Grossman and others reveal their reading records to Salon
Saturday, Aug 27, 2011 7:01 PM UTC 22Entertainment Summer reading
Can a computer ever give good book recommendations?
The latest and most ambitious attempt to turn literary taste into an algorithm
Wednesday, Aug 24, 2011 2:01 PM UTC 29Entertainment Readers and Reading, Books
Books you can dance to
"One Day" author David Nicholls and others create playlists to enrich the ties between writer, reader and character
Friday, Aug 19, 2011 4:20 PM UTCEntertainment Music, One Day
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