Reading a book for just six minutes reduces your stress levels by up to 68 percent. Reading books slows cognitive aging; ...

Life moves fast. Notifications buzz, deadlines pile up, and screens dominate almost every waking hour. Yet one quiet habit keeps proving itself against all that noise: reading. Something as simple as ...

Psychology says people who read a book before going to bed aren't simply passing time before sleeping. Research suggests this ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

Reading is experiencing a resurgence among Gen Z and millennials, many of whom are actively seeking alternatives to “doomscrolling” and the mental fatigue associated with constant social media use. In ...

If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, the population of American readers, Lector americanus, has been declining for decades. The ...

“Several people have told me lately that they’ve stopped being able to read, echoing my own experience,” author Katherine May confessed in her newsletter recently. Statistics suggest May and her ...

Every year, I set myself a reading challenge. These are sometimes small—read more poetry; read older books—and sometimes quite large. More than a decade ago, I spent an entire year reading nothing but ...