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Mark as Read

A weekly column from Molly Templeton on the culture of reading — covering everything from what we read and why, to the ways we organize our bookshelves.

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Detail from "Woman Reading" by Therese Glaesener-Hartmann (1912)

The Way to Read More Is to Read More

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detail from "Woman Reading" by Hector Caffieri

Rediscovering Rereading (Again)

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Comment number: 11
Ryan Gosling in Project Hail Mary

In Space, No One Can Hear How Lonely You Are

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"A Lady Reading a Newspaper" by Carl Larsson (1886); painting depicts a woman reclining in a garden reading a newspaper

The Book News Isn’t All Bad

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painting of a woman reading in front of a bookshelf with a ladder

The Specific Experience of Being Stuck on a Book

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Comment number: 7
Detail from "Woman Reading" by Therese Glaesener-Hartmann (1912)

The Way to Read More Is to Read More

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Comment number: 5
detail from "Woman Reading" by Hector Caffieri

Rediscovering Rereading (Again)

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Comment number: 11
Ryan Gosling in Project Hail Mary

In Space, No One Can Hear How Lonely You Are

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Comment number: 4
"A Lady Reading a Newspaper" by Carl Larsson (1886); painting depicts a woman reclining in a garden reading a newspaper

The Book News Isn’t All Bad

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Comment number: 5
painting of a woman reading in front of a bookshelf with a ladder

The Specific Experience of Being Stuck on a Book

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Comment number: 7
impressionist painting by Renoir of a woman reading

What Do You Want to Know About a Book Before You Read It?

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Comment number: 11
Photo of an open book with its central pages folded in to form a heart

It’s Time to Get Loud About the Books You Love

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Comment number: 1
Albanian postal stamp with an illustration of two children standing on either side of a stack of books

Your To-Be-Read Pile Might Be Lying to You

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Comment number: 20
Logo of the Hugo Awards against a background photo of space

Anyone Can Vote in the Hugo Awards — And Here’s How

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Comment number: 13
Close-up photo of a pile of wrapped gift boxes

The Art of Buying Books for Other People

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Portrait de Marguerite (The Reader) by Henri Matisse, 1906

What Keeps You Reading?

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Comment number: 26
Photo of tall bookshelves in the Trinity College library

The Accidental Completionist

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Photo of multiple stacks of books with the top and left portion of the picture heavily in shadow

There Comes a Time in Every Reader’s Life When You Have to Move the Books

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Comment number: 35
photo of a fountain pen writing

Form, Function, and the Sentences We Collect

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Comment number: 9
Painting of a bearded man hunched over a desk or table, reading a paper with his right hand to his forehead

(It’s Not) The Death of Criticism (Again)

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Photo of a shelf with stacks of paperback books

We All Miss Mass Market Paperbacks

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Comment number: 43
Photo of book store shelves seen through a circular frame of books; an open book is suspended in midair in the center of the photo

The Thing You Want to Read Is Out There (Probably)

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Watercolor sketch depicting two children on stage, performing for an audience of four other children.

The Theater Kids at the End of the World

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High contrast photo of a book with gold pages

Magic Doesn’t Have to Make Sense

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Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) and Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) stand together during the final scene of Rogue One: A Star Aars Story

It’s Okay to Know Where the Story Is Going

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Comment number: 14

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