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Short stories have a unique power—they capture deep emotion, human conflict, and moral insight in just a few pages. Over the centuries, certain works have transcended time and language, becoming ...

Finding time for reading can be tough—even on weekends. Delving into a lengthy tome can feel like too much when you’ve already packed your schedule with everything you didn’t get to during the week.

Short books can hold enormous emotional weight, capturing grief, love and fear with a precision that longer novels often miss ...

I’ve realized there are two types of readers: those who can’t stop reading until they finish a book, and those who take breaks and feel satisfied with reading a few chapters. I used to be in the first ...

As much as I love falling into a book and letting it consume an entire day, my free time doesn’t always arrive in uninterrupted stretches. Instead, it might be sprinkled throughout a hectic schedule: ...

Read With Me, a nonprofit program that aims to help children develop their full potential to read in English, says it's having a hard time finding volunteers in the eastern Coachella Valley, likely ...