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Mounting evidence suggests that regularly cozying up with a book can increase brain and mental health, improve literacy and math skills, and even slow cognitive decline. What's more, fiction seems to ...

1. Reading raises your intelligence. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh and King’s College London tested 1,890 pairs of twins five times from ages 7 to 16 for reading ability and IQ. They ...

Twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of the world’s written works. Ptolemy, who had served under ...

Have you ever recognized yourself in a book you are reading — whether in a character or situation — and thought, “wow, I’m not the only one?” It is a powerful moment, and one that might be helpful in ...

A bipartisan bill making the “science of reading” a priority in some federal literacy grants passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, signaling Congress’ growing interest in a movement ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...

Krupp has held about a dozen of the so-called Book Doofs in Melbourne, and three in Perth, since the first event in October ...