When holidays or pandemics shut down schools, gender differences in children's reading habits widen; boys stop reading, while girls continue, according to a new study from the University of Copenhagen ...

Americans seem to have given up on reading books. Surveys show that almost 40 percent read no books at all over the course of a year. Just 27 percent read between one and four books each year. Serious ...

Aerosmith fans have new music to listen to, thanks to legendary bassist Tom Hamilton, who returns with the debut full-length release by his new band, Close Enemies. The Close Enemies album hits the ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) – A local physician with UR Medicine just returned from the assignment of a lifetime: the Olympic Winter Games in Italy! For nearly a decade, Dr. Sandeep Mannava has specialized ...

For some young children in Columbus, Ohio, reading assessments don’t start in the kindergarten classroom — they happen first in the doctor’s office. With concerns rising about lagging childhood ...

We want to hear from high school teachers and college professors who assign writing. By Dana Goldstein For decades, American students have struggled to produce one dominant form of academic writing: a ...

NBC has aired every Winter Olympics since 2002, in Salt Lake City, UT. At this point, its broadcast teams are chock-full of grizzled veterans, many of whom have covered a dozen or more Games for the ...

Glenn Close says she can no longer “sit on the sidelines” after a second fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis, calling out the “inhumanity” and “sickening hypocrisy” of the Trump ...

Daily reading for pleasure in the United States has declined by 40% over the last two decades, at a rate of 3% per year, according to a 2025 study by the University of Florida and University College ...

Independent brewery Phantom Brewing Co. has announced it will close both its Reading taproom and its Echoes venue in Henley. The popular brewery, part of the local craft beer scene, said it has been ...

Hollowed out. That’s how I frequently described West Virginia University during the nine years I worked there before leaving this summer. There was a library, but it bought fewer and fewer books. The ...

In the 21st century, the practice of close reading has become synonymous with approaching a book as an artifact to decode—the idea that the blue curtains can never just be blue curtains. In Close ...