How to read now

Castillo, Elaine2023

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Summary

How many times have we heard that reading builds empathy? That it's he important to diversify our bookshelves? Or that books have saved our lives? These sentiments are noble and can sometimes be true, but award-winning novelist Elaine Castillo has more ambitious and radical hopes for our reading culture. In this smart, funny, galvanising collection of linked essays and deeply personal reflections, she attacks the stale ideas about how and what we read, and appeals to a more complicated form of engagement, one that acknowledges difficult truths, imagines a more daring solidarity and creates space for a riskier intimacy. Along the way, she remembers the father that inspired her own reading, reimagines the cartography of the classics, takes aim at Nobel Prize winners, topples indie darlings and celebrates glorious moments in everything from popular TV to the work of contemporary poets.