Includes bibliographical references.

"An exploration and manifesto investigating the power of reading--and our potential to become radically better readers in the world"--,Provided by publisher.

Castillo explores the politics and ethics of reading. She insists we are capable of a more engaged relationship not just within our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories. She builds a moral case against the settler colonialism of lauded writers, takes aim at Nobel Prize winners and toppling indie filmmakers, and celebrates moments from popular television. In doing so she empowers us to embrace a more complicated, embodied form of reading and create space for a riskier intimacy-- within ourselves and with each other. -- adapted from jacket

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