Reading Works%2C a 4-year-old organization%2C aims to improve adult literacy in metro Detroit. Nationally%2C the rate of adults with low literacy is 1 in 6. In Michigan%2C it%27s 1 in 3. Every adult ...

Research in education rarely draws on the substantial body of scientific evidence on how learning works. That’s a problem for teachers, students—and the rest of us. Researchers and academics focus on ...

On the heels of Karen Read’s headline-making murder charge acquittal, LBI Productions is partnering with Read and her lead defense attorney, Alan Jackson, to develop a scripted project chronicling the ...

Before the Iliad and the Odyssey, there was the Margites. Little is known about the plot of the comedic epic poem—Homer’s first work—written around 700 B.C. But a few surviving lines, woven into other ...

“It is a truth universally acknowledged … “ that on the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, a reader is in need of a novel to read. More than two centuries after Austen penned “Pride and ...

The Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge University Courtesy of flickr user reinholdbehringer The Wren Library at Cambridge’s Trinity College is as quiet as any library can be. Break the silence ...

“Have you read Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory?” I asked a post-graduate Literature student. “Yes, I have,” she replied. Curious about her interpretation of the hero’s character, I asked, “Did ...

The Karen Read trial, one of the most talked about court dramas this year, is about to become a Netflix documentary. The case has captivated the public starting in 2022 when the body of Boston Police ...

New novels from Jennifer Egan, Ali Smith and Hernan Diaz; debuts from Aamina Ahmad and Jenny Tinghui Zhang; posthumous stories and a novel by Tove Ditlevsen; and plenty more. By Joumana Khatib and ...