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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jacob Elordi reading Harry Potter in Emerald Fennell’s ‘Saltburn’ (Warner Bros ) Twenty-nine-year-old Lily* has, sadly, fallen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Welcome to performative reading – a way of consuming books that is less about words than it is suddenly all about aesthetics.

In October 2024, The Atlantic published a widely circulated article called “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books.” Drawing on accounts from 33 professors, it argues that many students ...

Before Sebastian Castillo cracks open a book on the bus, he has an intrusive thought: Should he tap the stranger next to him on the shoulder and clarify that yes, he’s starting this book on Page 1, ...

An interest in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita often shows up as a red flag (though this tends to assume that a reader will be sympathetic to the perspective of the narrator, Humbert Humbert, rather than ...

Reading isn’t supposed to be for show. In fact, sitting down with a book, ideally in a calm and quiet space, is one of the few activities in our hyper-online world that offers us respite away from our ...

Before Sebastian Castillo cracks open a book on the bus, he has an intrusive thought: Should he tap the stranger next to him on the shoulder and clarify that yes, he’s starting this book on Page 1, ...