New research from University College London and the University of Florida suggests that the number of people in the U.S. who read for pleasure is declining Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial ...

A recent study has found a sharp decline in the number of Americans who choose to read for fun. The national report published last month in the journal iScience found that people reading for pleasure ...

Any reader knows the unique delight of settling down with a good book. But over the past two decades, there has been a steady decline in Americans who read for fun, according to a study published ...

The average American checks their phone over 140 times a day, clocking an average of 4.5 hours of daily use, with 57% of ...

Let’s be honest: there are a thousand reasons why people hate reading. We had to read “classics” in high school. Shakespeare was stuffed down our throats in college. Every book we read growing up had ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, ...

Before Sebastian Castillo cracks open a book on the bus, he has an intrusive thought: Should he tap the stranger next to him on the shoulder and clarify that yes, he’s starting this book on Page 1, ...

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 ...

A new study published on Aug. 20 by journal iScience said that the amount of people in the U.S. who read for pleasure has steadily decreased The study found that Americans who reported that they read ...

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 ...