Magazine founded in 1922 by George and Lila Acheson Wallace, offering a steady diet of condensed reprints, life stories, news features, selfimprovement advice and jokes.

Reader’s Digest now reaches over 16 million households and appears in multiple languages in the US and abroad. Nonetheless, it is often satirized for its “good,” conservative values, which let it become associated with doctors’ offices, the elderly and “middle America.” Reader’s Digest’s condensed books, in particular, seemed to some to devalue reading and literature in favor of ease.