This article first appeared in Book Gossip, a newsletter about what the literati are really thinking. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every two weeks. A little less than a year ago, I talked to ...

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I’ve been trying to figure out how to read more for a while now, long before the calendar turned over to 2025. I know the gratification I get out of a great read, and I’ve tested the best e-readers ...

“A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are actually teaching ourselves how to ...

Tips and ideas for parents of reluctant readers about how fiction can provide a gateway into learning to read.

“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 ...