People read less: Do we still need the Booker Prize? Life&Style The world and it’s reading habits have changed – but has the Booker Prize changed too? And what purpose does it fulfil, asks Eliot Wilson What is the point of literary prizes? The longlist for this year’s Booker Prize was announced on Tuesday, 13 works of long-form fiction by writers of any nationality, which must [...]
Have rumours of the death of literacy been exaggerated? Opinion We’re told no one reads for pleasure any more, but the popularity of Middlemarch in Silicon Valley and the rise of “booktok” give a glimpse of hope, says Phoebe Arslanagić-Little A new study has found that the percentage of Americans who report reading for pleasure over the course of an average day has declined from [...]