Too many Americans today can’t speak a second language, or even speak and write English sufficiently, writes Lynne Agress.

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For the five authors featured here, words are the engine of wildly different pursuits. A financial journalist decodes ...

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Being a reader means cultivating a relationship with the world that, by most standards, can seem pointless and counterproductive.

Aim to bump older, culturally important, or much-recommended works to the top of your to-be-read list. This is an edition of ...

The staff of the Martha Canfield Memorial Free Library invites the public to an in-person talk with Tim Brookes, author of ...

Inside the nationwide celebrations for the author's 250th birthday and the new generation of readers discovering her 19th ...

While some people might find goal setting motivating — such as reading X number of books each year or pages each day — there ...