A nonprofit dedicated to literacy and health education is placing 30,000 books in pediatric clinics statewide for free distribution to Iowa children. Laura Holms, the Midwest regional director for ...

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.

Reading isn’t supposed to be for show. In fact, sitting down with a book, ideally in a calm and quiet space, is one of the few activities in our hyper-online world that offers us respite away from our ...