The classics are making a comeback. The great books of the past, which have been in danger of falling by the wayside as people read less and less, are suddenly reentering the zeitgeist. Guillermo del ...

Over the past 15 years, I have witnessed university students’ shrinking patience for reading – especially for reading “long” books. Increasingly, students also opt for audiobooks. While speeding up ...

Classicist Nadya Williams argues for believers reading the Greco-Roman classics. What follows is strange. Troilus’s soul leaves his body, rising above the fields of death. From this vantage point he ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. According to this year's second-annual Everand State of Reading Report, bookworms commonly revisited classic works of fiction in 2025 ...

Oh, my! It’s spring break. I’m one of those few adults who still gets one. With the exception of a few years there in my 20s, I’ve had a spring break every year since I started college back in 1986.

For her latest book, the popular British scholar Mary Beard gets personal about how she fell for ancient Greece and Rome.