The Book Recommendations That Don’t Work (And Then What?)

“It’s lovely, how this enthusiasm for books and writing draws us together like molecules in liquid, gathering and binding us. We willingly become entangled in a sort of literary waltz, a pleasant to-and-fro of fresh discovery. But what about when someone presses a book on you, assuring you that you’ll simply adore it … and you don’t?”

‘A Potential Doctors Without Borders for Arts Education’

“A group of enterprising young Canadians is Kenya-bound in January, trying to help bring back what they fear the country has sorely lacked in recent years: arts education.” The project, called Artbound, is “committed to putting arts back into global curricula by building dedicated arts schools that piggyback on the existing educational networks.”