On TikTok, everything is in pursuit of an aesthetic, including the books you read. BookTok is a competitive space that gets a ton of views — the hashtag currently has 132.8 billion views and ...

A reading nook is a cozy small space in your home that you can cuddle up with a good book and read in peace and quiet. Imagine a comfortable chair, recliner, window seat, or small couch. With your ...

To talk, as I am here, about the aesthetic pleasures of scholarly writing is surely a fool’s game. After all, we know that much academic writing is at best intelligible and at worst unreadable. To ...

Another TikTok user laments that this aesthetic "commodifies" reading. In general, social media users worry that this trend gives an elitist vision of reading, at the risk of putting some people ...