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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