In The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, Alan Jacob makes a lighthearted — and inspiring — case for reading at whim, without shame and for pleasure.

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I forgot what it was like to read Easy Rawlins books. It’s been years, at least four installments ago, since I visited this slice of South Central Los Angeles. There’s a throbbing of the brain ...

As for his business books, they read more like fiction -- because they are. Mr. Lencioni expounds theories of teamwork and leadership through easy-to-read novellas like "Death by Meeting," where a ...

The world's most notoriously difficult-to-read novel, "Ulysses" by James Joyce, is really an easy read at its heart, according to the Joyce Scholar-In-Residence at the University at Buffalo. "For all ...

Cristina Morales' novel "Easy Reading" is both angry and emancipatory. The 37-year-old Spanish writer delves into the lives of four women with cognitive disabilities who share an apartment in ...

I started reading the Easy Rawlins mysteries in 2003, and, earlier this year, I accomplished my longstanding goal of getting current on the series (now at 16 books). At first, I barely noticed the ...