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MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

The Quiet Collapse of Reading—and the Only Real Solution

Fiction Is Fading, Kids Are Skipping, Parents Are Scrolling. What to Do?

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Joel J Miller
May 14, 2025
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In the grand historical sweep of our species, humans have been reading for less than a blip. Still, my goodness, what a moment! Plato, Virgil, Augustine, Dante, Cervantes, Austen, Douglass, Melville, Twain, Wharton, O’Connor, Morrison. . . But is that glorious moment fading?

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“The Reader” by Federico Faruffini, 1864.

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