CultureSample story
Reading one page twice
A sample reading exercise explores what changes when attention moves from the subject to the sentences.
Sections
Culture
Books, photographs and the habit of paying attention.
4 stories
CultureSample story
A photograph and the story it cannot tell
An image of a wall can support close looking without proving the history we imagine around it.
CultureSample story
A reading list with fewer obligations
This fictional list distinguishes books to explore from books already promised a place in a schedule.
CultureSample story
Collecting words from a familiar street
A shop sign, a notice and a handwritten label become material for a small language notebook.