With young kids, you need to proceed carefully with their learning and homeschooling lessons. Once you are done with teaching words to your kids, it is time to move to some easy and small sentences.

“No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep,” says the garrulous shoemaker who narrates the Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal’s “Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age” (1964), “it’s meant to ...

Suppose a time in which people found themselves struggling to read or write; in any way still resembling the shapes such pleasure (and pain) had once taken before. Suppose our days became full of the ...