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 ...

In a world full of distractions, it can be challenging to find the time to escape into literature, but it is never too late to get back to reading. The top of the new year is the perfect time to ...

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 ...

There are great songs throughout the history of pop music, including Bob Dylan’s “Visions of Johanna” and Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” where the imagery is so rich and dense that fans and critics ...

In a world filled with digital distractions, these shows will help you indulge, develop or rekindle a love for reading. By Emma Dibdin Reading rates are declining — a recent study showed that the ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

Hollowed out. That’s how I frequently described West Virginia University during the nine years I worked there before leaving this summer. There was a library, but it bought fewer and fewer books. The ...

Nearly a year ago, when Education Week hosted an online conference about adolescent literacy across the content areas, we got a lot of interested and enthusiastic responses from participants. But we ...

They say the holidays are the most wonderful time of the year, but around these parts, we know nothing tops the launch of the annual Popsugar Reading Challenge — our take on a virtual book club that ...

At the end of the summer, about 20 members of the Bad Bitch Book Club arrived in Door County, Wisconsin. Their plan was to read books provided by Simon & Schuster, talk about books, and simply relax.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. What’s going on? This debate over ...

Neuroscientists have found that when people read, their brains don’t just process words — they simulate the story world. Functional imaging studies show that as a character in a book moves, sets goals ...