num_pages: 340
description: How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art but with our buried and entangled histories. Smart funny galvanizing and sometimes profane Castillo attacks the stale questions and less-than-critical proclamations that masquerade as vital discussion: reimagining the cartography of the classics building a moral case against the settler colonialism of lauded writers like Joan Didion taking aim at Nobel Prize winners and toppling indie filmmakers and celebrating glorious moments in everything from popular TV like The Watchmen to the films of Wong Kar-wai and the work of contemporary poets like Tommy Pico.At once a deeply personal and searching history of one woman's reading life and a wide-ranging and urgent intervention into our globalized conversations about why reading matters today How to Read Now empowers us to embrace a more complicated embodied form of reading inviting us to acknowledge complicated truths ignite surprising connections imagine a more daring solidarity and create space for a riskier intimacy--within ourselves and with each other.
language: English
title: How to Read Now
publisher: Viking