Reading may not be able to alter your baseline abilities, but it can increase what facts you know, allow you to better identify patterns, increase your empathy, and make your neurological connections more pervasive. Here's how.
This January, ArabLit started a series of talks with professors and instructors about teaching Arabic literature in translation. Here, I pull out seven suggestions from a talk with Prof. Joseph Farag.
Based on a talk from Jeff VanderMeer and Amy Green, a discussion on how to save the environment and the environmental fiction books to help along the way.
From budgeting to small talk, books that will help you navigate your supporting role in someone else’s nuptial extravaganza.
One Rioter on the unexpected lessons learned in library school. It's not all about the books.
Why do ordinary men and women do evil? Here are several books that discuss how the Holocaust happened and what we can do to prevent another one.
Thomas discusses the rise of fandom in libraries, and how libraries can help encourage and foster their patrons' fandom.
Dinosaurs. Monsters. Destruction. What more could kids ask for in an educational comic?
To understand the suffering that inspires a refugee to flee the only place they’ve ever known, we need to hear their stories.
Panelteer Ardo talks aboriginal comics you should be reading.
