Nearly all of the solar system’s planets are about to file across the night sky in a planetary alignment, and it will be ...

“Several people have told me lately that they’ve stopped being able to read, echoing my own experience,” author Katherine May confessed in her newsletter recently. Statistics suggest May and her ...

If you’re new to audiobooks, start with a celebrity memoir or a memoir read by the author. If the pace is too slow, speed up the audiobook: Scott listens at 1.3, Traci at 1.5, but will go up to 2.0 if ...

A few stanzas from the end of Chaucer’s long poem “Troilus and Criseyde,” the author interrupts his story to indulge in a bit of reception anxiety. “Go, litel book,” he bids the manuscript that’s soon ...

Gen Z students are arriving at college with such feeble reading skills that some are incapable of even comprehending full sentences — forcing professors to start reading to them aloud in class, ...

There's growing concern about the rise of harmful and aggressive forms of masculinity, whether at home, in schools or in public spaces. Parents, educators and researchers are increasingly interested ...

There’s no need for an expensive retreat to practice meditation. Try it on your lunch break to recharge your mind and body. “Meditation is a practice to calm the brain by recentering our attention, ...

It's like a bookmark across time and space. Credit: Spotify If you're like me and tend to read physical books while listening to the audiobook, dismayed at the inconvenience of time spent away from ...

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The average American checks their phone over 140 times a day, clocking an average of 4.5 hours of daily use, with 57% of people admitting they’re “addicted” to their phone. Tech companies, influencers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just slowing down gives you time to question and reflect. Morsa Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images The average American checks ...

Every January, many of us resolve to finally read more. A new book appears on the nightstand, an audiobook gets downloaded, or we dust off an old library card. We keep finding our way back to it ...