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 ...

Research suggests that reading on screens is a less effective way to absorb and retain information than reading the old-fashioned way, but why? And when so many of us are noticing shortening attention ...

Meanwhile an UnHerd op-ed last year argued that “the literary man is not dead”, positing that there exists a subculture of male literature enthusiasts keeping the archetype alive and claiming that ...

Mr. Thompson calls this a “thinning of thought”: A slow erosion of our collective ability to hold complex ideas in mind, ...

As a high school science teacher, Fawn Phillips, who’s been teaching the subject since 1999, said she had never really thought about the problems her students were having with reading—nor did she have ...

Four school districts in major urban areas using the science of reading found while students are grasping basic literacy ...

A woman was left in tears after glancing over to the person sitting next to her on a flight and reading the hurtful words that were being written about her. In a TikTok video, Vanessa Confessore was ...

Queen Camilla insists listening is legitimate but a snobbery remains that’s hard to shift ...