Reading aloud to students during class time may sound like a simple, almost quaint, endeavor, as if from a bygone era. But literacy experts insist that it’s every bit as relevant now as ever, and they ...

Last month, Karen Read was acquitted of second-degree murder and vehicular manslaughter, ending a Massachusetts legal saga containing enough John Grisham–style plot twists to captivate international ...

The retrial of Karen Read is shaping up to be altogether similar to her first murder trial, but there are several differences that could influence whether the jury reaches a verdict this time around.

Karen Read is a rare case: a woman accused of murder who has her own fan club. More often, alleged female murderers are reviled or belittled. Casey Anthony became known as “the most hated woman in ...

Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. In most assessments, a large part of the credit for how all of this has come to be—or, according to the haters and detractors (and ...

If your day-to-day media diet includes anything related to true crime, you’ve probably heard of the Karen Read trial. Read was charged with killing her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, ...

Karen Read was found not guilty of the most serious charges in her high-profile Massachusetts murder retrial in June 2025. In their fourth day of deliberations, jurors acquitted Read of second-degree ...

Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become ...

It's not easy keeping up with everything that's written on the web, especially not if you've got a dozen open browser tabs vying for your attention. This is where read-it-later apps come in. These ...