Book bummer: Why reading is in deep decline

Are we entering a postliterate society? College students can't read Dickens while spending 25 years of their lives glued to ...
The Atlantic

The Writing-Advice Book That Teaches Us How to Read

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. “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 ...
The Economist

Is the decline of reading making politics dumber?

The experiment was simple; so too, you may have thought, was the task. Students of literature at two American universities were given the first paragraphs of “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens and asked ...
CNN

‘Romantasy’ is on the rise, but reading for pleasure has fallen drastically over the past 20 years

Sarah J. Maas, Freida McFadden and Emily Henry –– can these popular authors join forces and save the day against a dangerous decline in reading for enjoyment? Daily reading for pleasure has plummeted ...
MSNBC

‘Reading Rainbow’ returns to a country far more hostile to books — and diversity

Once upon a time in a land of rabbit-eared TV sets that displayed four or five stations tops, there existed a half-hour program celebrating the joy of picture books that was called “Reading Rainbow.” ...