Photo by Blaz Photo on Unsplash A Quiet Escape in a Noisy World Life today feels like a constant stream of screens and alerts ...

Sometimes the best stories don't need 400 pages to leave a mark. On National Read a Book Day, why not pick up a slim volume ...

It's National Read a Book Day this weekend, so get out of your reading slump with a page-turning mystery you’ll probably ...

Bestselling author Mick Herron returns to the newsletter this week with our conversation about “Clown Town,” the latest ...

In our anxious, tech-filled world, fewer of us are reading for pleasure. Here’s how to get back in touch with the joy of books.

Some people read books to pass the time. Others read books and forget that time even exists. If you’ve ever looked up from a ...

“He had to go fast, like an American, or he was all torpor. Half horse half alligator.” I hadn’t heard that Southern folkism, about indestructible men, before encountering it in the poet Charles Olson ...

When Dan Pelzer died on July 1, he had logged 3,599 books that he’d completed between 1962 and 2023. Columbus Metropolitan Library There was no Goodreads in 1962, the year Dan Pelzer spent making his ...

After Dan Pelzer died this month at 92, his children uploaded the handwritten reading list to what-dan-read.com, hoping to inspire readers everywhere. By Aishvarya Kavi He did not enjoy the nearly ...

At a time when reading for pleasure, or even for school, can feel like a low priority, when library programs are losing ...