The New Dark Ages by James Marriott review – a grandiose but superficial defence of reading
What is it that makes books so magical? The Times columnist somehow forgets to tell us in this lofty polemicWhile other kids watched cartoons, Times columnist James Marriott would spend his school holidays in bed with piles of books – “a mammoth effort of attention, perhaps the greatest I ever made” – under the spell of his father, a teacher who…
What is it that makes books so magical? The Times columnist somehow forgets to tell us in this lofty polemicWhile other kids watched cartoons, Times columnist James Marriott would spend his school holidays in bed with piles of books – “a mammoth effort of attention, perhaps the greatest I ever made” – under the spell of his father, a teacher who…
