Readers in one Massachusetts book club spend an hour each month uniting in complete silence, and they are usually reading different books. “It is a sapphic, medieval horror," said Jessie Wright, ...

Two participants hold up their recent selections during silent book club on July 23, 2025. Photo by Madera Longstreet-Lipson. In an attention economy driven by algorithms, there exists a bimonthly ...

When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

Ask me what I’m reading at any given moment and I’ll probably rattle off at least three titles, not to mention comics and the occasional textbook I may also be chipping away at in the background.

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