6 Enjoyable Ways to Read Classic Novels—or Pretty Much Anything

Intimidated? Distracted? Bored? Need Another Way In? A Practical Answer to the Postliterate Panic

Depending who you ask, we’re no longer merely reading less; we’re becoming postliterate. That is, we’re losing the habit of reading, along with the attention and patience that serious books require. I don’t find the doomsday scenario convincing; the past was not so uniformly literary as we assume, nor the present so uniformly moronic. But the downward t…