It was a long way off from generating autonomous liberal selves, but some of those beginnings start there. Gradually, books ...

The National Endowment for the Arts annual Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, administered every five years since 1982, found that 48.5% of U.S. adults reported reading at least one book in ...

The 35th Doha International Book Fair (DIBF), which concluded yesterday, has drawn exceptional public of intellectuals and readers, as well as attracting screen generations to books. The main stage at ...

Not too long ago, reading was an intimate, life-changing experience. It was a journey dictated by curiosity — not algorithms. Book lovers looked for stories that spoke to them, authors who challenged ...

As we increasingly succumb to the temptations of touchscreens and AI, do we risk creating a generation with its head in the cloud? Thankfully there’s a solution: the printed page. There is little that ...

Before Sebastian Castillo cracks open a book on the bus, he has an intrusive thought: Should he tap the stranger next to him on the shoulder and clarify that yes, he’s starting this book on Page 1, ...

Book bans, chatbots, pedagogical warfare: What it means to read has become a minefield. Credit...Rodrigo Corral Supported by By A.O. Scott Everyone loves reading. In principle, anyway. Nobody is ...

Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner -- Not a real fish : the ethnographer as inside outsider / Roger M. Keesing -- Rapport-talk and report-talk / Deborah Tannen -- The sounds of silence / ...