The Department of Justice states, ‘The link between academic failure and delinquency, violence and crime is wedded to reading failure. Over 70% of inmates in America's prisons cannot read above a fourth-grade level.’

I WAS JUST IN THREE LIVES BOOKSTORE. The owner says the new Sally Rooney could turn out to be their biggest-selling novel ever.

 

‘The New York Times’ review in 1922 of James Joyce’s Ulysses:

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