You can listen to the latest bestseller while commuting or cleaning up the house. But is listening to a book really the same ...

Pairing a book for focus with one for escape makes reading richer.

Reading books isn’t just good for your mind. It triggers profoundly relaxing changes in your body as well.

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...

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 ...

Nobody got into their career expecting to spend this much time reading documents. Yet here we are, and the pile keeps growing. Reports, proposals, compliance filings, research briefs, vendor contracts ...

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 ...