The Writing-Advice Book That Teaches Us How to Read

In a world of dwindling reviews, the author Lydia Davis’s new work charts a more serendipitous path to reading.
YouTube on MSN

How to Make a Camcorder for Smartphone from Cardboard

In this fascinating DIY tutorial, learn how to transform simple cardboard into a functional camcorder for your smartphone. Follow our step-by-step guide to create an innovative and eco-friendly ...
YouTube on MSN

How to Make a Drum from Cardboard

Learn how to make an amazing drum using simple materials like cardboard, right from the comfort of your home! In this step-by-step tutorial, we guide you through the entire process, showing you ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Making friends can be hard. These picture books help show how it’s done

Friendship seems like a simple thing, but it encompasses so much. Making friends is at the heart of childhood, and these new picture books explore how young people make connections despite barriers of ...
Slate

The Listed Judge Our List

MAC: Slate has asked us—indeed hired us—to talk about their big picture-book package, “The 25 Best Picture Books of the Past 25 Years.” (Did you like how I called it a “package”? Did it make me sound ...
Newsweek

Students Turn Back to Books as More School Districts Implement Phone Bans

Students at a school district in Kentucky are putting down their phones and cracking books at a record pace now that devices are banned during class, district officials said. The head-spinning shift ...
GBH

Rather than AI, this professor chooses a chalkboard and old-fashioned books

An English professor at Boston College makes the case for discussion-based teaching and learning — without machines.
CNN

In new book, Kamala Harris says it was reckless to let Biden make reelection decision on his own

“In retrospect,” Kamala Harris writes of letting Joe and Jill Biden decide on their own whether the then-president should have tried to run for re-election, “I think it was recklessness.” That is the ...
The New York Times

Amy Coney Barrett’s Memoir Is as Careful and Disciplined as Its Author

In a studiously bland new book, “Listening to the Law,” the Supreme Court justice describes her legal philosophy and tries to sidestep the court’s recent controversies. By Jennifer Szalai When you ...
IFLScience

Does 10,000 Hours Of Practice Really Make An Expert?

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...
Rappler

Big Bad Wolf heads to Olongapo City for first time

MANILA, Philippines – The “world’s biggest book sale” is making its Olongapo City debut this September! Big Bad Wolf Books, a global reading advocacy movement founded in Malaysia in 2009, brings over ...