American readership is dragging these days. According to a National Endowment for the Arts study published a few years back, only 48.5% of adults are typically reading “one book or more for pleasure” ...

Does the idea of reading for two hours a day – a book not your phone! – sound like a wild fantasy? It did to me, too, until I gave it a go. Focusing on words on a page for 120 minutes, despite the ...