Technology is changing how we read—and that means we need to rethink how we teach. Linus Merryman spends about an hour a day on his laptop at his elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, mostly ...

Is there a good book just waiting for you on the shelf? Source: By Carrie Knowles They’re everywhere. Sweet, hand-painted wooden boxes on neighborhood streets with wide glass doorways so you can see ...

Book lovers have all inevitably found themselves slogging through arid prose that stretches on endlessly. Sometimes the culprit is a popular novel whose obnoxious characters you’re desperate to run ...

Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become ...