Mr. Bannon is the chief librarian at the New York Public Library, where he is also director of branch libraries and education. Nov. 23, 2025 As a librarian, I get a lot of questions. One I am hearing ...

Reading without a purpose leads to lesser comprehension and long-term memory. Many students who read this way find it difficult to participate in class discussions and do as well on their exams as ...

Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become ...

Last month, Rose Horowitch wrote the article “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books,” which sparked a lot of debate. Professors told Horowitch that their students felt overwhelmed at the ...

According to a Gallup survey from 2022, Americans are reading fewer books per year than ever before. And the time that people spend reading has dropped over the years, too. All right, it's time now ...

As an avid reader – and an author, too – I’m disheartened by frequent reports of a decline in reading for pleasure among young people. So when a friend recently asked me whether her daughter was ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. What’s going on? This debate over ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. A perfect storm is brewing for reading. AI arrived as both kids and adults were already ...

Re “I Get Why Students No Longer Read,” by Jonathan Malesic (Opinion guest essay, Nov. 10): I just completed a 40-plus-year career teaching literature courses to university students, and I agree with ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...

For the past five years or so, I’ve read books on my phone. The practice started innocently enough. I write book reviews from time to time, and so publishers sometimes send me upcoming titles that ...

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