Until recently I believed that the three greatest contributions audiobooks have made to civilization were providing access to books to the sight-impaired, reducing the tedium of mindless drudgery and ...

Boys’ reading struggles are not inevitable, research suggests, and addressing the deficit could improve outcomes in school and beyond. By Claire Cain Miller Claire Cain Miller is working on a series ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As an avid reader – and an author, too – I’m disheartened by frequent reports of a decline in reading for pleasure among young people. So when a friend recently asked me whether her daughter was ...

Another study that takes a stab at trying to determine how much, or how little, Americans read has been released. The new report looked how reading for pleasure and reading with children fared between ...

Fewer Americans than ever before are reading for pleasure, according to a new study released Wednesday, declining 40 percent in the past 20 years. Only 16 percent of Americans age 15 and over read for ...

Sarah J. Maas, Freida McFadden and Emily Henry –– can these popular authors join forces and save the day against a dangerous decline in reading for enjoyment? Daily reading for pleasure has plummeted ...