In a world of dwindling reviews, the author Lydia Davis’s new work charts a more serendipitous path to reading.

To enter Krasznahorkai’s fiction is to surrender to sentences that stretch toward infinity and find, at their limits, a ...

Author and critic Lincoln Michel talks about Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai's Nobel win and what it shows about who gets recognized in world literature.

Mindful reading means giving your full attention to the text without any distractions. This practice encourages you to focus on every word and sentence, improving comprehension and retention. By ...

I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Alice Walker and others were cultural ...

Charlie English begins “The CIA Book Club” by describing a 1970s technical manual: a dull cover, as uninviting as anything. A book that practically begs you to put it back on the shelf and move on.

Universities across Britain are teaching literature students how to cope with long novels. These initiatives, referred to as ...

“People just inherently assume that a translation is inferior to the original, and I don’t like that assumption,” Cohen said. Sign up now to attend JTA’s event with translator Jessica Cohen on May 20 ...

Cree Myles gets people to read more through reviews she creates for her tens of thousands of followers and the community she leads through Penguin Random House's "All Ways Black" campaign. Her reviews ...

Reading is in trouble. Multiple studies in multiple places seem to be showing the same thing. Adults are reading less. Children are reading less. Teenagers are reading a lot less. Very small children ...