Summary
Draws on the author's extensive research from "Proust and the Squid" to consider the future of the reading brain and its capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection in today's highly digitized world. Full description
- Reading, the canary in the mind
- Under the big top: an unusual view of the reading brain
- Deep reading: is it endangered?
- "What will become of the readers we have been?"
- The raising of children in a digital age
- From laps to laptops in the first five years: don't move too fast
- The science and poetry in reading (and teaching) to read)
- Building a biliterate brain
- Reader, come home.