New year’s reading resolutions are a fun way to take your reading seriously. Here are some ideas – from no phones before bed, ...

It started with “Red Comet,” an 1,118-page biography of Sylvia Plath, undertaken with far-flung friends during the pandemic ...

In this op-ed, assoc. culture director P. Claire Dodson explores the glut of 2025 reading challenges and obsessive Letterboxd movie tracking and what they say about how we engage with art. In second ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cathlyn Melo is an experienced anime writer from the Philippines with a Master in Business Administration. She was once a hospital employee before deciding to pursue her passion for anime and manga ...

The last time I visited my parents, I borrowed a novel from the shelves in my old bedroom. Once, the books there belonged to me, but in the decades since I lived in this apartment, my father has ...

Growing up, school made reading stressful. You didn’t get to pick the books, there were pop quizzes, and your teacher forced you to find the symbolism in blue curtains. But at a certain point, long ...

Hollowed out. That’s how I frequently described West Virginia University during the nine years I worked there before leaving this summer. There was a library, but it bought fewer and fewer books. The ...