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James Marriott

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James Marriott is a columnist at The Times. He presented the Radio 4 series How Reading Made Us about the history of literacy and writes the popular Substack newsletter Cultural Capital. Before joining The Times, James worked in the rare book trade.

He was born and grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne and studied English Literature at the University of Oxford.

Books by James Marriott

The New Dark Ages

The decline in reading is the most important cultural shift of our time. The age of print is giving way to the age of the screen. The world we knew is passing away and nothing will ever be the same again. Welcome to the post-literate society

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