As a college counselor in Houston, Texas, Khadyajah Jenkins witnesses students lack of access to books first-hand. So, ...

Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become ...

It’s certainly true that college students read fewer books than previous generations did, but most of the evidence of their incapacity comes from such anecdotal laments.

To make her argument about “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books,” Rose Horowitch, assistant editor at The Atlantic, opens her contentious =social&utm_source=twitter">article</a> with a ...

I just completed a 40-plus-year career teaching literature courses to university students, and I agree with Mr. Malesic that today’s college students are not serious readers of literary texts.

T his first week of October is the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week.According to a recently released report by the advocacy group PEN America, which tracks book bans, the past ...

Literature undergraduates are struggling...to read long books: Why students can only read one tome every three weeks. Sir Jonathan Bate says students today lack the same attention as 40 years ago ...

Imagine a world without English majors. In the last decade, the study of English and history in college has fallen by a third. At Columbia University, the share of English majors fell from 10 ...

In Barnett's view, if we are to really respect the taste and intelligence of kids, we should also be venerating their art as highly as any other literature. He'd put books such as Frog and Toad ...