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.

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 ...