Southern writer Sean Dietrich traces how smartphones, algorithms and outrage culture killed newspapers, gutted reading and ...

Just like writing cursive, it seems that reading an old-school analog clock is the sort of skill that has fallen by the wayside in our smartphone age. That lapse was revealed when NYC public schools ...

As Illinois rolls out a new law requiring early literacy screenings beginning Jan. 1, some educators question whether it will ...

Recently, we asked the staff of The Berkshire Eagle to share what the best book they read this year was — there were no prerequisites, other than it was read over the last 12 months and it was their ...

I’ve taken you down this twisted memory lane tale to say reading books (whether pages or on a screen) is an awesome gift to give a young person, and not just at the holidays. This is an everyday ...

"Eyes Fixed on Jesus" is a series of three volumes walking the reader through the Gospels, interweaving the narratives of all ...

Nobody wants to write narrative anymore, but that’s where the fairy-monster-sex books are running laps around the litfic ...

Jim Jarmusch's latest, an anthology about families, is about words not spoken, and people gone but not forgotten.

We live in a culture that trains us to decide quickly: right or wrong, agree or disagree, fact or fiction. When something ...

I want to read other things. Yet even a nonfiction book can look like a daunting obstacle when the onrush of daily content ...

Amid the tree decorating, shopping, gift wrapping, writing of Christmas cards, and waiting for the next snow, it’s difficult to relax this time of year. Still, I like to find a little time whenever ...