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Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. Every week, the critics and editors at the New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, from ...

Bookworms’ reading quirks are more common than you’d think. (We’re looking at you, page sniffers and back-to-front flippers!) As the daughter of a librarian, I grew up surrounded by books. My mother ...

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Nothing spells out trouble for a bookworm quite like a reading slump. Just like a cold that just won’t pass, the reading slump — a period of disinterest in books — can be a deflating and prolonged ...

Babies and young children are sponges that soak in practically everything in their environments. It’s true! Even during story time, their minds are at work, taking in all the language they hear and ...

Only one in four American men now reads fiction. The publishing industry, 78 per cent female at the editorial level, has followed the money towards romance, romantasy, and BookTok-driven fantasy. Male ...

When Alden Jones taught her first back-in-person college class during the pandemic, something surprising happened. “Here I am, teaching the same class I’ve taught for 10 years, using the same book and ...

When Mississippi reformed its reading curriculum in 2013, scores for the state’s elementary school students soared. Inspired by the “Mississippi miracle,” other Southern states followed suit. But the ...