How do you teach children to read? This question is at the heart of a decades-long battle. When we read our eyes skim the print, we notice the length of the word and maybe the first letter, then our ...

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, “The Vicomtesse de Vaudreuil” (1785) Oil on panel; 83.2 x 64.8 cm (32 3/4 x 25 1/2 in.) Johannes Vermeer had a serious thing for books. As it turns out, so did Edward ...

Guests read and take pictures at the April 11 opening of Clark County Historical Museum’s exhibit, “This Is Our Legacy.” The museum and the Vancouver branch of the NAACP have released a reading list ...

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 ...