Fiction
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
A Harper Perennial paperback on the neuroscience and history of reading, from Sumerian clay tablets to digital screens. Maryanne Wolf is a cognitive neuroscientist writing for a general audience, and the book is strongest when it explains how literacy rewires the brain. The cover is the soft, approachable design typical of Harper Perennial science titles, with the friendly typography that suggests the book will not punish you for lacking a PhD. Ideal reader: the reader who wants to understand what the brain is doing when it looks at marks on a page, or the parent worried about what screens are doing to that process.
$5.30
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