Ray Bradbury gave a characteristically prescient interview to the Seattle Times over 30 years ago, in 1993. “The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading ...

In American high schools, the age of the book may be fading. Many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and ...

Audible's new Harry Potter full-cast audiobook series has already received its second entry. This new form of the Harry Potter books kicked off just last month with a unique interpretation of The ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...

CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio -- The Academy for the Performing Arts will stage a modern reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth this week at the Chagrin Falls Performing Arts Center. The production, titled ...

Slate receives a commission when you purchase items using the links on this page. Thank you for your support. In a chaotic and distressing year, books provided a respite, a chance to commune with ...

The New Deal, George Selgin suggests, did not work the way most historians claim. This economist’s eye-opening analysis shows that the increased government centralization of the 1930s rarely resulted ...

I’ve read the Harry Potter books at least half a dozen times throughout my life, but it’s been a long time since my last run-through. It’s a lot easier to just turn the movies on in the background at ...

Country music fans and Opry faithful have something special to celebrate this season. The Tennessean has released "Full Circle: 100 Years of the Grand Ole Opry," a 160-page hardcover collector's book ...

Once upon a time, children read books. In the corners of classrooms and libraries students got lost in books. However, there has been a dramatic shift in the system and books are no longer the center ...

The literary landscape of the 21st century seems more and more divided when it comes to one particular aspect: plot. Some books have it; others don’t. The have-nots have gotten a lot of critical ...

The 'Outlander' star made his Royal Shakespeare Company debut on Oct. 6 Sabienna Bowman is a Digital News Editor at PEOPLE, where she has been working since 2023. She previously worked at POPSUGAR, ...