A Goodreads challenge turned reading into a performance. Books became numbers, pages became obstacles, and the joy that started the whole thing disappeared somewhere around week sixteen. It took ...
My Jan. 7 column about my own reading of 2025 included the sobering statistic that pleasure reading — news included — is down by 40% since 2003. And that a 2022 survey showed only 38% of Americans had ...
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Hunter discovered that if you recalibrate a course to prioritize “developing a ...