Before Sebastian Castillo cracks open a book on the bus, he has an intrusive thought: Should he tap the stranger next to him on the shoulder and clarify that yes, he’s starting this book on Page 1, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jacob Elordi reading Harry Potter in Emerald Fennell’s ‘Saltburn’ (Warner Bros ) Twenty-nine-year-old Lily* has, sadly, fallen ...

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Reading isn’t supposed to be for show. In fact, sitting down with a book, ideally in a calm and quiet space, is one of the few activities in our hyper-online world that offers us respite away from our ...

The performative man is no stranger to Harvard. With a matcha latte in one hand, a tote bag slung across his shoulder, and a carefully curated book held at a conspicuous angle, he is instantly ...

It's true—Gen Z isn't reading anymore. According to Gallup's 2025 Voices of Gen Z study, 35% of K-12 students say they dislike reading, and 43% say they rarely or never read for fun. This feels ...

An interest in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita often shows up as a red flag (though this tends to assume that a reader will be sympathetic to the perspective of the narrator, Humbert Humbert, rather than ...

A new study into the reading and listening habits of Australians revealed Melbourne as the nation’s “performative reading” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Welcome to performative reading – a way of consuming books that is less about words than it is suddenly all about aesthetics.