Selecting books with characters and settings different from one's own life can broaden perspectives. By immersing oneself in ...

Listening to music can enhance our lives in all kinds of ways - many of us use it during exercise, to regulate our mood, or ...

Reading to children daily bolsters their language skills, vocabulary, and memory. It fosters a love for learning, enhances ...

The days of book reports and research projects are long over for most of us. There’s no required reading list for a gr ...

I spoke to two experts about how to speed read to get through more books and articleswithout sacrificing comprehension, so ...

When ex-US Marine Xavier Itty Cora realizes that the secret to resolving his personal troubles lies in the story of his ancestor, the scandalous, cunning pepper merchant Francis Itty Cora, he ...

Our Evenings is a work of such expansive, affecting brilliance and is a must for the Booker Prize next year (it is published outside of the dates to be considered for this year's award).

Parents may feel powerless to influence their children’s reading habits. But, in reality, they can dramatically impact kids’ ...

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Teachers at many schools shifted from books to short informational passages, followed by questions about the author’s main idea—mimicking the format of standardized reading-comprehension tests.

Since reading Bryan Alexander’s book Universities on Fire, I’ve been immersing myself in every climate crisis novel I can lay my hands on. After reading all this fiction, I’ve been dreaming of turning ...