I did something clever in 2011, which made it much easier to collate my year’s reading list: I simply started a post at the beginning of the year, and tried to remember to add each…

In case it’s not obvious, clicking on the book titles will bring you to my post mentioning or responding to the book, except in the case of the unblogged titles at the end of the…

Near the end of last term, I posed the same question to each of my three sections of 1st-year University Composition. We’d been discussing Steven Johnson’s Everything Bad is Good for You throughout the term,…