Fewer than one in 10 boys aged 14 to 16 in the UK read daily, according to research, which found reading for pleasure was being crowded out of teenage lives by schoolwork,... Read more »
Like many people, I spent New Year’s Eve making a list of the goals I want to achieve in the year ahead – a habit that never fails to arouse the ire... Read more »
Hay festival president Stephen Fry is backing the organisation’s new campaign to collect recommendations for the most pleasurable books to entice new readers, in a bid to combat falling literacy rates in... Read more »
Curtis Sittenfeld is irresistibly drawn to the awkward: to the geeks, and to those who are not quite as attractive, confident, rich or successful as the peers with whom, often to everyone’s... Read more »
Book News: More than a third of UK adults have given up reading for pleasure, study finds
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“Sexual pleasure is a gift from God” but Catholics must avoid pornography, Pope Francis has said. The pontiff made the remarks during a catechesis devoted to the “vice of lust” at his... Read more »