Why do so many students struggle to understand what they read, even after they learn how to read? This story also appeared in Mind/Shift That’s a topic of hot debate among reading researchers. One ...

but here's why everyone should be allowed to read however — and whatever — they choose Getty It’s an opinion that book lovers often share online: Audiobooks don’t “count” as reading.

But how is it different, and why might that make it better for reading? It’s a good question, and there’s actually some pretty interesting science behind it. E-ink devices use electronics ...

Reading can be a powerful way of escaping, relaxing and realizing truths about ourselves and the world. That’s why I’m heading back to India tonight.

John Guillory sets out to explain what close reading is and “why it has been so difficult to define” by way of a fascinating anthropology of reading that makes available new arguments in ...