I’ve been trying to figure out how to read more for a while now, long before the calendar turned over to 2025. I know the gratification I get out of a great read, and I’ve tested the best e-readers ...

Banning, and even burning, books that conflict with tightly-held ideology is nothing new. In 1933, student-led book burnings at the University of Berlin spurred a list of government-enforced banned ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...