How do you teach children to read? This question is at the heart of a decades-long battle. When we read our eyes skim the print, we notice the length of the word and maybe the first letter, then our ...

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, “The Vicomtesse de Vaudreuil” (1785) Oil on panel; 83.2 x 64.8 cm (32 3/4 x 25 1/2 in.) Johannes Vermeer had a serious thing for books. As it turns out, so did Edward ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...

Foreword / Steven Heller -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Josef Müller-Brockmann: "schutzt das Kind!" and the mythology of Swiss design -- Koloman Moser's Thirteenth Secession Exhibition poster ...

History is typically associated with the past. But history, in its simplest terms, is the study of change over time. Black History Month—an annual occurrence that some also call “Black Futures ...

Say the name Edgar Allan Poe and even people who don't read much will shudder. Hollywood has seen to it that his tales, many chopped up, have hung a reputation of gore around his neck that makes his ...