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Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?
Is the Internet the enemy of reading, or has it created a new kind of reading, one that society should not discount?
By MOTOKO RICH
NYTimes July 27, 2008

As teenagers’ scores on standardized reading tests have declined or stagnated, some argue that the hours spent prowling the Internet are the enemy of reading — diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans and destroying a precious common culture that exists only through the reading of books.

But others say the Internet has created a new kind of reading, one that schools and society should not discount. The Web inspires a teenager like Nadia, who might otherwise spend most of her leisure time watching television, to read and write.

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Yeats Meets the Digital Age, Full of Passionate Intensity
By JIM DWYER
A digital resurrection allows Yeats to stride again along the hinge of the 19th and 20th centuries.

We’re Not Laughing at You, or With You
By LEE SIEGEL
Does The New Yorker’s cover really qualify as satire?

Soldier Boy
Review by DAVID ORR
Frances Richey’s new collection of poems, “The Warrior,” focuses on her relationship with her son, a Green Beret who has served two tours in Iraq.

In a half-filled auditorium, a poet was reading a poem about the death of a child. Autumn leaves fell, night descended, the hours became slow and cold and endless; it was pretty sad stuff. Afterward, an audience member came up to say how much he’d enjoyed the reading and how sorry he was for the poet’s loss. “I appreciate that,” the poet responded, “but the thing is, I’ve never had any kids. That was just a poem.”

I’m Y.A., and I’m O.K.
By MARGO RABB
When is a novel for adults really a novel for children? When a publisher and its marketing department decide it is.

This One’s for Daddy
By CHRISTOPHER DICKEY
Facing the memories of a father’s short life of hard drinking, cruelty and the circumstances that helped push him to those extremes.

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