Want to read more books next year? Here are a few hacks from the top 1% of readers

About 82% of U.S. adults reported reading fewer than 10 books in 2023, according to data analytics firm YouGov. An elite 1% ...
Education Week

Novels vs. Excerpts: What to Know About a Big Reading Debate

According to some teachers and college professors, children aren’t reading as many whole books anymore. But just how widespread is this purported trend, and what does it mean for students’ literacy ...
The New York Times

The New York Times’s Summer Reading Bucket List

Read along with the Book Review this summer: Can you check off five items before fall arrives? By The New York Times Books Staff When many of us at The New York Times Book Review were children, there ...
The New Yorker

What’s Happening to Reading?

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Parents, chill: Why you don’t need to teach your 3-year-old to read

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...
The Conversation

Do you really need to read to learn? What neuroscience says about reading versus listening

Stephanie N. Del Tufo, Ph.D. research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health (NICHD, NIDCD, NIE, NINDS), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Spencer Foundation, the University ...