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, ...

Trying to read more can be a hard habit to stick to – even if you're someone who regularly reads a lot. Just ask Nadia Odunayo, the founder and CEO of The StoryGraph, a book recommendation website ...

In between those New Year's Resolutions to eat healthier and exercise more, why not give your brain a bit of a workout too? Regular reading leads to positive impacts on your mental and emotional ...

Readers respond to a librarian who wrote that listening to a book qualifies as reading. To the Editor: Re “Yes, Listening to a Book Counts as Reading,” by Brian Bannon (Opinion guest essay, Nov. 23): ...

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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 ...