Amazon has just launched a new notification system for non-fiction titles in select markets. It is called “Great on Kindle.” This program has a few compelling aspects; the Kindle books with this ...

Directed Studies, Yale’s year-long Great Books program for first-year undergraduates, could expand by as much as 25 percent next year, Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis said in an interview. On ...

More than 110 first-year students were waitlisted for the Directed Studies program this fall, according to Katja Lindskog, the program’s director of undergraduate studies. The waitlist for the ...

Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montás will share his life journey to highlight the continued relevance of the “Great Books” by writers such as Plato, Augustine, Freud and Gandhi and a ...

As New College of Florida announced a new online liberal arts degree program Thursday afternoon, the college included a special guest at the press conference — Joe Ricketts. Ricketts, the billionaire ...

We meet people like John Erskine, the grandfather of the Great Books movement and a “gentleman of the old school,” as Beam describes him. Erskine believed a great book was one that “has meaning, and ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Mortimer J. Adler, a high school dropout who went on to become an educational theorist, a father of the Great Books program and the world's highest paid philosopher, died Thursday at ...

The “100 Great Books” had long ago scored a smash hit before the undergrads on the University of Chicago’s Midway ‘TIME, Oct. 24,1938). Last week it was on he road, to play to adults, on a four-city ...

Grove City's "Books with Bo" event features a therapy dog at the library to promote a love of reading and reduce stress.

IT is characteristic of our lively American culture at the present time that one of the biggest publishing ventures of recent years — a twomillion-dollar enterprise — should be backed by (1) a senator ...