Linking Thinking

Twilight of the Books

We are reading less as we age, and we are reading less than people who were our age ten or twenty years ago. Caleb Crain reacts to The National Endowment of the Arts (N.E.A.) recent report on American reading patterns that connects declines in reading with civic, social, and economic implications and asks what society might be like if only a few elite people read literary texts as a hobby.

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