Being a reader means cultivating a relationship with the world that, by most standards, can seem pointless and ...

Here’s a sentence I can’t believe I have to write in the year 2025: Reading is good for you. Granted, coming from a newspaper editor, there’s some implicit bias in that statement, given that my ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

Mr. Bannon is the chief librarian at the New York Public Library, where he is also director of branch libraries and education. Nov. 23, 2025 As a librarian, I get a lot of questions. One I am hearing ...