Family-friendly fireworks show returns at 9:30 p.m. with Berks Festival organizing the annual event in partnership with the ...

City officials, Opportunity House and community partners coordinate shelter, resources and outreach as winter temperatures ...

An actor at the Dickens Museum in London is delivering dramatic performances of the classic holiday tale, just like the ...

It started with “Red Comet,” an 1,118-page biography of Sylvia Plath, undertaken with far-flung friends during the pandemic ...

When Alden Jones taught her first back-in-person college class during the pandemic, something surprising happened. “Here I am, teaching the same class I’ve taught for 10 years, using the same book and ...

The number of people who read for fun appears to be steadily dropping. Fifty percent of U.K. adults say they don’t read regularly (up from 42% in 2015) and almost one in four young people aged 16-24 ...

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

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 ...

“Reading Rainbow” is coming back! Nearly two decades after the long-running children’s show signed off, it will return with an all-new host. “🎶 Take a look, it’s in a book 🎶,” the program captioned ...

When was the last time you read a book? According to a new NPR/Ipsos poll, reading is something a majority of Americans enjoy, and want to get better at. But it's nowhere near a top priority. The ...

I now feel I can read anything I want to, and that I’m not too tired or busy or overwhelmed or old to get myself into a really long and possibly demanding book ...

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 ...