Our Reading Lives features stories about how books and reading have shaped who we are and how we live.
One emetophobe writes a love letter to books that have carried her through a lifetime of suffering from a little-talked-about mental illness.
A reader finds the perfect place in Manhattan to read and write, and it happens to be the noisy fire escape outside their own apartment.
What are the telltale signs that all of your closest friends are also book lovers? Here are a few rounded up by one bookish bestie.
A reader looks back on the books she had to read in British high school and comes to some troubling conclusions about the quality of education received.
One reader on finding herself -- an autistic woman -- in a YA novel and what that meant.
What one reader took away about the topic of parenting after reading BIRD BOX.
Because saying "Oh yeah, I've been meaning to read Zadie Smith for a while now" just isn't going to cut it anymore.
Growing up, one reader searched for herself in books, and discusses how finding few fat girls represented on the page affected her perspective.
So many American children grew up with Laura Ingalls Wilder. Including me. But her books are racist, so should we really be reading them to our kids?
A public librarian's take on why he will only read nonfiction in 2019. From history and natural history to biology and social sciences, there is no limit.
