This article describes HOPSCOTCH, a design concept for an exer-learning game to engage elementary school children in learning. Exer-learning is a new genre of digital learning games that combines ...

Julio Cortázar’s novel of eternal youth turns 50 this year. Rayuela, published in Spanish in 1963 and translated into English as Hopscotch three years later, was a breakthrough book. Capturing life as ...

Hopscotch, which appeared in 1963 in Spanish and was translated to English three years later, offers several ways through its story about the mental disintegration of an Argentine intellectual in ...

I ONCE MET A MAN who claimed he always read the last paragraph of any novel before he turned to page one. “I want to make sure it has a good ending,” he explained. “Otherwise why invest the effort?” ...

Some years ago I did a day’s teaching at Fighting Words, the creative writing centre established by Roddy Doyle and Sean Love. The afternoon was for adults, and Hilary Fannin, who was there, gave an ...