Let’s be honest: there are a thousand reasons why people hate reading. We had to read “classics” in high school. Shakespeare was stuffed down our throats in college. Every book we read growing up had ...

Here are eight strategies that can help you read more this year.

The options for entertainment have exploded in volume, with new (in relative terms) options like film, television, podcasts ...

Here’s a sentence I can’t believe I have to write in the year 2025: Reading is good for you. Granted, coming from a newspaper editor, there’s some implicit bias in that statement, given that my ...

Every January, many of us resolve to finally read more. A new book appears on the nightstand, an audiobook gets downloaded, or we dust off an old library card. We keep finding our way back to it ...

If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, the population of American readers, Lector americanus, has been declining for decades. The ...