Discover how mother tongue reading clubs in Singapore are fostering bilingualism and strengthening ties to local culture ...

Confession: I never read “The Grapes of Wrath.” Not until now. Most people are forced to read it in high school. It was taught in American Tradition, “AmTrad” we called it. I scorned the plebe English ...

Chris Stanislawski didn’t read much in his middle school English classes, but it never felt necessary. Students were given detailed chapter summaries for every novel they discussed, and teachers ...

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There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

When you read Tolstoy in English, you are reading someone else's interpretation. Translators make thousands of invisible ...

Book lovers have all inevitably found themselves slogging through arid prose that stretches on endlessly. Sometimes the culprit is a popular novel whose obnoxious characters you’re desperate to run ...

“Reading is dead” has become one of culture’s most confidently repeated claims—invoked every time attention spans shrink, ...

Ecker Hill Middle School students are spending advisory time this winter reading together as part of the school’s annual One Book One ...