The performative man is no stranger to Harvard. With a matcha latte in one hand, a tote bag slung across his shoulder, and a carefully curated book held at a conspicuous angle, he is instantly ...

Not in your local bookstore, that’s for sure. For the past several years, writers and pundits have been wringing their hands over how few men are supposedly writing and reading fiction today. It is ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

Have you ever cracked open a book and instinctually sniffed its spine before reading a page? Me too. And it turns out that ...

Reading less means missing out on the brain-boosting benefits of books and more. (Photo illustration: Alex Cochran for Yahoo News; photo: Getty Images) There’s something special, even magical, about ...

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 ...