Christine Smallwood

Christine Smallwood is the author of the novel The Life of the Mind. (February 2023)

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Misreading the Cues

The “balanced-literacy” method of teaching children to read has predominated in American schools since the 1990s. It has been a failure.

Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong

an American Public Media podcast created by Emily Hanford

February 9, 2023 issue

The Power of Questions

Jacqueline Rose’s latest book, On Violence and On Violence Against Women, takes up a subject she has not covered before: gendered abuse and harassment.

On Violence and On Violence Against Women

by Jacqueline Rose

July 22, 2021 issue

Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong in Damien Chazelle's First Man, 2018

Dads in Space

Most space movies emphasize the conquest of space. Claire Denis gives us the conquest of people.

October 20, 2018

Thomas Doret as Cyril in Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s The Kid With A Bike

The In-Between World

The Dardennes’ film ‘The Kid with a Bike’

The Kid with a Bike

a film directed by Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne

May 10, 2012 issue

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