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 ...

Literature-inspired collage art on display in Northampton book shops Published: Jan. 23, 2014, 4:57 p.m. Collage titled "Eve Takes a Bite and Finds It Good" by Judith Tingley ...

From touching memoirs to college campus novels to queer history, here are the books that raised and shaped the LGBTQ+ identities of our staff.

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.

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 ...

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.

Yubaraj Nayaghare is a Nepali writer and essayist known for his travelogues and subjective essays. Born in Ilam in 1969, he started writing poetry at age ten and has since published 22 books, ...

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 ...

It’s extra-strength literature. If you really love books, or you want to love them more, I have five recommendations. None of these are traditional literary criticism; they’re not dry or academic.

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 ...

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 ...