Geoff Dyer's "thought-provoking and entertaining books" have always had a prominent autobiographical strain, said John Self in The Times. Whether grappling with D.H. Lawrence ("Out of Sheer Rage") or ...
A certain sort of British memoir takes education as its queasy, pivotal center. The narrators of these books — among them Robert Graves’ WWI-scarred reminiscence, “Good-Bye to All That” (1929), and ...
American teenagers now average about twice as much time spent on homework each day as their predecessors did in the 1990s. Whether the practice is beneficial for learning, Joe Pinsker wrote in March, ...