The percentage of American adults who read literature – any novels, short stories, poetry or plays – fell to at least a three-decade low last year, according to a new report from the National ...

Colloquy: Join an online discussion about a new report from the National Endowment for the Arts that describes an apparent decline in reading habits by Americans. Who, if anyone, is to blame for the ...

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Henry David Thoreau once remarked that “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.” Until recently, Americans helped themselves generously to that ...

J onathan Kramnick’s book Criticism and Truth is more modest than its title suggests. Essentially an apologia for the nuts-and-bolts work of literary studies, it is best described not as “ambitious” — ...

BYU English major Dylan Robinson said he had no idea what he was doing when he walked into a literature reading last winter semester. He didn’t even know that Inscape — the journal hosting the reading ...

The 87-year-old pontiff believes reading literature enables individual people to learn the art of reflective personal discernment, empathy with others, as well as entering a dialogue with the culture ...

It’s a Friday night in Chinatown. In the Asian Center, storefronts are closed, their neon signs still buzzing in the rain. Upstairs, lively chatter echoes from the Bel Ami Gallery. Inside, under red ...

Step into a storybook with Cleveland's Literary Lots. "What does it feel and look like to walk into a book?" That's what Literary Lots founder Kauser Razvi asked herself before she revitalized her ...

A Devon literary festival is returning for the first time in almost a decade, with organisers saying it is "set to become a ...