Today, pupils at schools across the country have been celebrating World Book Day – but for QUEST Trust, the event wasn’t just a single day. The multi-academy trust, which includes four primary schools ...

Boys’ reading struggles are not inevitable, research suggests, and addressing the deficit could improve outcomes in school and beyond. By Claire Cain Miller Claire Cain Miller is working on a series ...

Queen tells reading campaign that listening counts too – and the publishing industry increasingly agrees Queen Camilla has met many disreputable characters in her time as a royal, but her encounter ...

Every January, many of us resolve to finally read more. A new book appears on the nightstand, an audiobook gets downloaded, or we dust off an old library card. We keep finding our way back to it ...

A version of this story appeared in the weekly Newsletter from the Editor. Sign up here. It was just after 5:00 a.m., and I was wide-awake in a hotel in Rome. Jet lag, certainly. I grabbed my phone, ...

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 ...

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 ...

After nearly two decades, the classic kids' show Reading Rainbow is back — with a new host and a new digital format, but with the same mission of encouraging children to "take a look, it's in a book." ...

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 ...

When was the last time you curled up with a good book or flipped through the pages of a magazine? If it’s been a while, you’re not alone: The number of Americans who read for fun has plummeted over ...

Another study that takes a stab at trying to determine how much, or how little, Americans read has been released. The new report looked how reading for pleasure and reading with children fared between ...

Sarah J. Maas, Freida McFadden and Emily Henry –– can these popular authors join forces and save the day against a dangerous decline in reading for enjoyment? Daily reading for pleasure has plummeted ...