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Byline: Michael Dirda When I was younger, all that mattered to me about a book was the text. So long as I could read âThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmesâ or [...]

''Nobody should have to worry about being able to afford critical health care,'' Gov. Philip D. Murphy said in his sixth-annual State of the State address. Gov. Philip D. Murphy [...]

A new semester means a whole new way of teaching reading at hundreds of schools in the nation's largest school system. From Brooklyn to the Bronx, posters encouraging students to [...]

A tight-knit community of young-adult writers who belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has yielded smashes like ''Twilight.'' But religious doctrine can clash with creative freedoms. [...]

The pandemic hurt children's reading skills. Librarians are doing what it takes to connect them with books -- including dance routines. The pandemic wiped out decades of progress in children's [...]

There is a madcap performance within the Jenna Bush Hager morning routine. Coffee sloshes from her cup, occasionally threatening her ''Today'' show uniform. Lipstick tints a tooth or two until [...]

Byline: Greg Leporati Once upon a time - in the early 2000s - novels based on video games were a nascent but quickly growing trend. The New York Times best-selling [...]

Byline: Stephanie Merry If 2020 was a time to read science fiction about population-decimating viruses and explanatory books about systemic racism, this year, for many people, was about finding solace [...]

Arts Who Decides What you CAN READ? by Charley Locke ø Illustration by C?cile gari?py late last year, more than 400 books disappeared from school library shelves in San Antonio's [...]

Byline: Mark Athitakis When I think about books after this odd, grim, pandemic-struck time, I think about Moe Berg. A longtime catcher for the Boston Red Sox and Chicago White [...]

Before there were books, there were stories. At first the stories weren't written down. Sometimes they were even sung. Children were born, and before they could speak, their parents sang [...]

Readers have collected their favorite literary lines for centuries. Now compiling a portable word scrapbook is easier than ever. Creating a commonplace book is somewhat like marking your favorite lines [...]

Parents Adjusting to the U.S., Then to Remote Learning Jansy Molina de Maldonado's son couldn't speak. When he was a year and a half, her son, Ian, loved to watch [...]

Byline: Stephanie Merry and Ron Charles The bestseller lists are often a sign of the times. A few weeks ago, John M. Barry's 2004 history 'The Great Influenza' and 2014's [...]

For centuries, novelists and fiction writers have imagined what plagues and virus outbreaks could look like, and many readers are seeking these books out amid concerns about the coronavirus. You're [...]

At dozens of barbershops and laundromats across the United States, the sound of children reading aloud mingles with the buzz and snip from barbers' tools or the din of washers. [...]

Byline: Christopher Ingraham Americans spent less time reading and more time watching TV last year than ever before, according to new time use data released by the Bureau of Labor [...]

Not long ago I found myself inside the hushed and high-vaulted interior of a nursing home for geriatric books, in the forgotten city of St.-Omer, France. Running my white-gloved hands [...]

A few years ago, when people heard I was a reading researcher, they might ask about their child's dyslexia or how to get their teenager to read more. But today [...]

THIMPHU, Bhutan -- Not long ago, when Bhutan's government tried to enroll children in school, parents hid them in the attic and bribed government agents with butter and cheese to [...]

Byline: Christopher Ingraham The share of Americans who read for pleasure on a given day has fallen by more than 30 percent since 2004, according to the latest American Time [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Nuts come in from Iran and fresh fruit from Pakistan, even though Afghanistan grows both in abundance. Years of bloated foreign aid budgets have produced high salaries, [...]

Byline: Rebecca Asoulin Jan Weismiller has been noticing a lot of new faces in her Iowa City bookstore over the past few weeks. And they all want one book, says [...]

A public school board in Mississippi said this week that it would give students the option of reading the classic novel ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' -- but only with a [...]

MELBOURNE, Australia -- When Borders opened in 2002 across the street from Readings, Melbourne's best-known independent bookseller, retail experts predicted catastrophe for the musty old shop competing with the shiny [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDOhio State, the football-mad university of more than 60,000 students, could hardly be more different from Williams College, the prestigious liberal arts school in the Berkshires, or Loyola University [...]

It's a truth universally acknowledged that anyone in want of attention could do worse than take possession of Jane Austen. We've already had Austen and zombies, Austen and game theory, [...]

The decades of trauma suffered by independent neighborhood bookstores -- damage from bargain megastores, the ascension of the e-book and Amazon's flash delivery of cut-rate reading -- hardly hindered Chris [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDStanding in the dark outside the Reykjavik public library in the relentless damp chill that comes with a light rain at 40 degrees, I kept trying to zip up [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDForty strollers were double- and triple-parked on the main floor of the Fort Washington Library in Upper Manhattan. As another one came through the door, Velda Asbury waved toward [...]

With just a week left before the unofficial end of what has been a relentless summer of business news -- the fate of Greece, the economic woes of China and [...]

Byline: Denise Hassanzade Ajiri As the new school year is getting closer, a barber in Iowa has come up with a creative way to encourage reading among children. Courtney Holmes [...]

Last year, the release of the Hollywood adaptation of Gillian Flynn's 2012 novel ''Gone Girl'' propelled the book onto best-seller lists in several countries around the world. Millions of people [...]

BEIJING -- With a state-owned power plant in nearby Shanxi Province temporarily shut down to reduce air pollution, one of its engineers, Liu Cixin, is using the free time to [...]

STANFORD, Calif. -- THE ferns under my oak trees evoke moments from ''The Great Gatsby'' for me. I read the book many years ago, but I listened to it last [...]

''TO read a novel is a difficult and complex art,'' Virginia Woolf wrote in a 1925 essay, ''How to Read a Book.'' Today, with our powers of concentration atrophied by [...]

Byline: Bob Minzesheimer and Anthony DeBarros When USA TODAY began its Best-Selling Books list 20 years ago, J.K. Rowling was a struggling unknown writer teaching English in Portugal. Suzanne Collins [...]

In a digital world where many younger readers feel increasingly comfortable downloading novels and textbooks onto their computers or e-readers, a majority of Americans from the ages of 16 through [...]

Byline: COLETTE BANCROFT; Times Book Editor I never go on vacation without a book. Okay, a bag of books. But sometimes a book is as good as a vacation. The [...]

He controls a global publishing empire, but few would call him bookish. His city is a hotbed of writers and critics, but when it comes to literature, he pleads ignorance. [...]