Contents: Preface. The Gradual Instant. Learning How to Create Insight. Interpreting Identities: Troubling Bodies. Learning How to Be a Subject. Interpreting Identities: Every Moment Is Two Moments. Learning How to Fall in Love. Interpreting Identities: Enlarging the Space of the Possible. Why Reading Literature in School Still Matters.

Elaborates a theory of reading developed in an earlier book, by offering a larger discussion of what constitatutes the act of literacy engagement and the ways these acts contribute to the ongoing invention of the "reading subject."