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Gen Z Is Reading More, Not Less — and They’re Going Back to Print

Gen Z Is Reading More, Not Less — and They’re Going Back to Print

Friday, August 28, 2026
The Atlantic put “The Age of Reading Is Over” on its August cover. Staff writer Rose Horowitch, who wrote the widely shared 2024 essay “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books,” argued that America has become postliterate — that the decline in book reading now cuts across age, gender and education level, and that…