The invention of close reading. By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to turn postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art ...

Worried student hiding behind notebook and sitting between two friends. Three fellow students preparing for exam on sofa in library. Education and exam concept. AI is answering more. Gen Z is reading ...

Math and reading scores dropped to their lowest levels in more than two decades among high school seniors. That's according to the Nation’s Report Card put out by the National Assessment of ...

Whether it's parents, carers or teachers, there's an awful lot of people in our lives that try and get us into the habit of reading. But maybe halt those rolling eyes for a moment, because reading is ...

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 ...

The future of education is not just in infrastructure or innovation, as vital as those are. It lies in how a society cultivates the inner life, how it teaches its people, from childhood, to sit with ...

Reading Festival returns this weekend. Over the years the event on Richfield Avenue has featured legendary sets from the likes of Patti Smith, Nirvana, Rage Against The Machine, Radiohead, Arctic ...

E-books are a mature product category; there are hundreds of digital bookstores worldwide. There are several ways people who love reading digitally approach it. The first is a smartphone; it is always ...

In the Book Pages, a reader talks about ‘The Wall’ by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Shaun Whiteside (New Directions).