How to read: a guide to getting more out of the experience

Most of us can read, but is there a way to do it better? Faster? With more comprehension or even … joy?Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastWhy read books, in this day and age? “Haven’t we all secretly sort of come to an agreement, in the last year or two or three, that novels belonged to the age of newspapers and are going the way of newspapers, only faster?” wrote Jonathan Franzen, tongue firmly in cheek, in a 2010 essay. The comment fee