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Reading and Health–Latest Research

(Above) Someone who may have benefited from reading. Through its Get Into Reading initiative The Reader Organisation has been promoting…

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Literature

Favourite Poems Read by Animals

If there is one thing the Web has taught us it is that a lot of people have too much…

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International

Japanese Diary: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Flier

Kimberley Long is a former Reader volunteer currently teaching English in Japan. For my Christmas visit home I chose a…

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Literature

Featured Poems: An Easter collection

We realise that we can't bring you chocolates, or bunnies, or bunches of flowers, but we can bring together many aspects of…

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Literature

So Spirited A Town–Nicholas Murray Interview

Over at The Book Depository Mark Thwaite has been interviewing Nicholas Murray about his next book, So Spirited A Town:…

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Calderstones

Wirral Bookfest 2008

Bea Colley writes with information about the Wirral Bookfest which runs for a week from April 7th and features readings,…

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Literature

William Faulkner and Barack Obama

C. Max Magee at The Millions has an interesting post about the recent speech made by Barack Obama addressing the…

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Literature

Sentimental Old Fool

Deadlines have left me a little out of touch in the last few days but I wanted to share this…

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Literature

Featured Poem: The Prelude, William Wordsworth

by Sarah Coley, The Reader magazine's deputy editor. If you want the company of a great soul, read The Prelude…

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Calderstones

Reader Event: What Are You Reading?

Tomorrow (Saturday March 15th) heralds the grand re-opening of the Bluecoat arts centre in Liverpool. After a £12.5 million refurbishment…

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Shared Reading

Links We Liked for 12 March 2008

I've been teaching Nabokov's Lolita this week and came across Zembla, a superb website dedicated to the writer. There has…

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International

After Empire

Kimberley Long discovers that history and geography matter in ways you don't expect. One thing I’ve discovered since I came…

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