A prescription for...getting out of reading rut

What to do when you're in a literary slump

I interrupt summer reading proceedings to deal with an urgent plea which my heart cannot ignore. What to do when you have fallen out of the reading habit? When you reading mojo has - gasp: the horror - abandoned you?

“I’ve always considered myself to be a reader. But I seem to have lost the knack!” writes what I think we can justifiably call the patient.…