Last November, only two months into my college experience, The Atlantic published an article titled, “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books.” The article discusses how teachers, including at ...

Q My 14-year-old daughter can’t bear the vogue for teenage novels involving vampires, goths and the like. She has even recently retreated back to the world of Enid Blyton and Harry Potter. I’d be ...

A new study reveals that parents of pre-school children spend on average £6 per month on books for boys, 25% less than they spend on books for girls. According to the Childwise Monitor Pre-school ...

In 2018, Andrew Sean Greer was changing an incontinent pug’s rhinestoned diaper at a Tuscan writers residency when he learned that he'd won the Pulitzer Prize. At first, he thought it was a practical ...

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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 ...