Events

Wherever historians look, in all periods and every culture, we find readers reading independently. They choose their books, they create their own meanings, they interpret texts idiosyncratically and skeptically. In short, they argue with the author. In a wide-ranging excursion across centuries and continents, Jonathan Rose tracks the remarkable history of the ornery reader. Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University. Part of the Book History Colloquium at Columbia.