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Reading Is a Vice

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Adam Kirsch in The Atlantic: If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, the population of American readers, Lector americanus, has been declining for decades. The most recent Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, from 2022, found that fewer than half of Americans had read a single book in the previous 12 months; only 38 percent had read a novel or short story. A recent study…
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3 Quarks Daily broke the news in on Thursday, January 15, 2026.
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