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 ...

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Tipton and her co-author, the director of Florida State University’s Florida Center for Reading Research, Nicole Patton-Terry, argue that academics and schools of education need to “build a field of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Love to curl up on the couch with a good book? You aren't alone. According to a Gallup poll published in 2022, in 2021 Americans ...

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 ...

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 ...

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