Reading for pleasure has declined by 10 percent since 2003, according to a 2025 American Time Use Survey. There are all kinds of potential explanations for this, from the rise of social media to the ...

As many of us try to decide on New Year’s resolutions, mine has dropped in my lap. For the coming year, I’m going to try recording every book I read. The idea was prompted by my two recent columns ...

Writer Suleika Jaouad has been keeping a journal for as long as she could hold a pen. It got her through her battle with leukemia at age 22, life after treatment and then the pandemic. But at a ...