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What Does It Mean to Read Closely?
On attention, interpretation, and the curious discipline of taking a sentence seriously.
Read →Writing on education, literature, culture and the ideas that shape the way we see the world.
Education is often described as the acquisition of knowledge. But perhaps its deeper purpose lies elsewhere: in changing the way we attend to the world.
Read the essay →On attention, interpretation, and the curious discipline of taking a sentence seriously.
Read →Libraries are more than repositories of books. They are places where intellectual life learns to become communal.
Read →A review of books that refuse to give their readers easy answers.
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