Nearly half of all Americans didn't pick up a single book in 2025, with the page-turning hobby dropping nearly 40% within the ...

Black History Month is a time to reflect on the sins we have committed as a nation. America’s original sin has indeed evolved and is very present today in the White House.

Using dialogic book sharing, adults become active listeners and encourage children to assume a progressively more active role in storytelling. Adults follow the child’s lead, encouraging them to ...

Stephen King's favorite book of his is Lisey's Story, which is unexpected, since it's not horror-focused and isn't as ...

A former president convicted of plotting a coup is now eligible to shorten his prison sentence in Brazil by reading books. The same law that applies to thousands of incarcerated people across the ...

I almost wound up underlining all of Walter Isaacson’s slim new book, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written. It’s that smart, challenging, personal, humane -- with only 41 pages of text and a few short ...

The Greatest Sentence Ever Written is a small book on a big topic. Published to mark the 250th anniversary of The Declaration of Independence, it provides a detailed look at the familiar second ...

This year’s Booker Prize jury panel included Sarah Jessica Parker who said that she had to read 153 novels before selecting the winner. To read that many books requires a kind of monastic discipline – ...

The Wordle word of the day is glint, a word that exists for moments language usually rushes past. Not the obvious ones, not the loud ones, but the fraction of a second when something reveals itself ...

True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink Late civil rights leader Lawson, who died in 2024, offers an engrossing behind-the-scenes look at his work ...