
Why Read?
A scholar and author of Teacher: The One Who Made a Difference argues that questions about the uses of literature are essential to a literary education and that reading not for only training and education, but also for pleasure, can change students' lives for the better. Reprint.
Reviews

Lloyd Dalton@daltonlp
What faces us is the prospect of a world where meaning withdraws and people are left in the midst of soul-destroying emptiness, hopping and blinking and taking their little poison for the day and their little poison for the night.

Ari Hertz@arihertz