From WSJbooks: Here are this season’s best in nonfiction, novels, biographies and more
If you listen to the doomsday critics, the golden era of reading is over, ruined by the internet, e-books, our attention span and more.
On the contrary, Leah Price, an English professor, argues that there was never a “golden age” for reading. “The history of reading is also a history of worrying,” Ms. Price writes in “What We Talk About When We Talk About Books.” Her book is a witty, tonic rebuttal to the latest round of gloomy prognostications about the...
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