Tag
reading practice
Essays
Reading in Translation: Trust, and the Limits of It
An essay on what is required of the reader who reads books written in languages she does not know.
Essays
The Re-Read: On Returning to a Book
On the kind of reading that only happens the second time, and the books that ask for it.
Essays
The Abandoned Book and What It Tells Us
On the books we stop reading, and the small honest information they carry about us as readers.
Essays
Annotating in Pencil: A Household Practice
A short defence of marking books with a soft pencil — and a longer one of the kind of attention the practice demands.
Essays
Against Fast Reading: An Argument from a Slow Bench
An argument for slow reading, made from a battered chair in a Boston flat by a reader who has tried, and failed, to read 100 books in a year.