There's a Japanese word that describes your pile of unread books: tsundoku. It dates back to the 1800s but feels especially relevant today — after all, we're reading less than we used to. Every ...

Around the world, young people are reading for pleasure less often, suggests a recent report. In Australia, 29% of high school students don’t read in their free time. So, how do we encourage our ...

Reading is experiencing a resurgence among Gen Z and millennials, many of whom are actively seeking alternatives to “doomscrolling” and the mental fatigue associated with constant social media use. In ...

‘Reading is having a moment,’ according to Tinder. But do its users actually appreciate books, or just talk about them to get dates? Name: Booksmaxxing. Age: The next big thing. Appearance: Thoughtful ...

Look, I get it: attention spans nowadays are shot. The pandemic seemed like it would’ve been a great time to get a lot of reading done, but my attention span was so thoroughly ruined that to this day ...

“Several people have told me lately that they’ve stopped being able to read, echoing my own experience,” author Katherine May confessed in her newsletter recently. Statistics suggest May and her ...

A perfect storm is brewing for reading. AI arrived as both kids and adults were already spending less time reading books than they did in the not-so-distant past. A new study shows the amount of ...

‘Party Line’ is the debut poetry book by award-winning poet Kyle Carrero Lopez, who dedicated his critical verses to fellow Cuban Americans. In our interview, the author talks party politics, Black ...

* Originally published on May 13, 2020. We tend to think that reading is a sign of intelligence, that we are improved by reading, that there are books we must read and others beneath our attention.

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