From 'The Crying of Lot 49' to 'Vineland,' discover why Thomas Pynchon’s famously 'difficult' novels can actually be for any ...

Is listening a more optimal way of learning than reading a book? Do audiobooks improve young learners’ reading comprehension ...

Mader introduced Windholz as the final presenter who read from his novel, “The Single Life,” which aims to understand the ...

What happens when you shrink down a book club to two days and take turns narrating the story? Welcome to Page Break.

Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

The Supreme Court reinstated a lower-court ruling this week that said California schools must notify the parents of children who start asking to use new pronouns or otherwise take steps to adopt a ...

If a certain crime can only be committed by a male, can there be justice for the accuser when the male defendant is called “she?” A case in Madera County, California, winding its way to trial, will ...

Last month, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. At issue was whether Idaho and West Virginia laws that prohibit transgender women and girls from ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A little girl stared at a list of test questions in her science class, unable to ...

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 ...

A Virginia school board has changed its policies to stop employees from forcing other teachers and students to address them by pronouns that differ from their biological sex. At its Dec. 15 meeting, ...

If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, the population of American readers, Lector americanus, has been declining for decades. The ...