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Best Books of 2011
We’ve checked our towering stacks and put together our largest best of the year feature ever. With pride, the editors and contributors of January Magazine once again present our selection for Best Books of 2011. Happy reading! When Literature and Genre Break Up Please, please, darling let us stop this. This artificial separation between us is painful, it is undignified, and it fools no one. In company, we sneer at each other and make those cold, cutting remarks. And why? You laugh at me for telling the same stories again and again. I call you boring and joyless. Is it wrong, my dear, that I hope the cruel things I say of you cut as deeply as the ones you say of me? |
What Do Your Favorite Books Say About You? Tis the season of lists. Everyone -- including us -- is telling everyone about their favorite books of the year. But here’s a question that is at once silly and salient: what do your choices say about you? Twentieth Century Poets Immortalized
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Reading A Book Alters Your Brain (And That’s A Good Thing!) We’ve been saying all along that it doesn’t make much difference if you read by traditional or electronic methods: it’s the reading itself that’s the thing. Turns out, we were right. According to a study done at Washington University, reading a book blazes new neural pathways. Our brains are actually physically changed by the experience of reading. Even though, according to some people, the book is dead and who needs novels anyway? Long live the book! |
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The Best of Non-Fiction Since the Beginning of TIME Now for your reading pleasure: a list of the top 100 best and influential works of non-fiction published since 1923. And how do we know these are the best? Why, TIME said so, so -- obviously -- it must be true! |
