When Alden Jones taught her first back-in-person college class during the pandemic, something surprising happened. “Here I am, teaching the same class I’ve taught for 10 years, using the same book and ...

You’ve read the articles. “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books,” declares The Atlantic. “Why aren’t college students reading – and what can we do about it?” asks Psychology Today. Do they ...

Re “I Get Why Students No Longer Read,” by Jonathan Malesic (Opinion guest essay, Nov. 10): I just completed a 40-plus-year career teaching literature courses to university students, and I agree with ...

Mr. Malesic is the author of “The End of Burnout.” He teaches writing at Southern Methodist University. In 2011, I taught a college class on the meaning and value of work. It was a general-education ...