Americans are reading for pleasure less. Let’s get back in the habit. By Jancee Dunn The staff at my local library are usually a convivial bunch, but when I asked them about a recent report that fewer ...

A sweeping new study from the University of Florida and University College London has found that daily reading for pleasure in the United States has declined by more than 40% over the last 20 years — ...

People have nightmares of AI-powered killing machines turning our world into a robotic dystopia. But a less-bloody yet equally striking transformation is already under way — one in which ...

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 ...

Study after study has shown that reading on screens just doesn’t have the same benefit as reading print books. But where does that leave teachers, who often are required to use both formats in their ...

Move over "Dick and Jane." A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise. For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate ...

Researchers fear the reading decline reflects how many Americans have less and less leisure time. “Reading for pleasure, among other forms of arts participation, is a health behavior,” said one author ...

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 ...

Clara Pribadi is a "bit behind" on her reading goal for 2025. The 32-year-old from Adelaide/Tarntanya exceeded her 50-book goal last year. But as of November, she still has 10 to go. "This year I'm ...