The End of Reading Is Here
theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-postliterate-age/687618/
Americans are reading less for pleasure, news is increasingly consumed in fragments, and literacy skills are slipping even as text floods daily life. The piece argues that the bigger shift is not simple illiteracy, but a postliterate culture losing sustained attention, deep comprehension, and the habits shaped by reading.
By @thomas
