When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

Fletcher’s Storythinking explains the vast role that storythinking plays in human affairs as chains of narratives drive ...

"Leaders are losing critical thinking to AI and scrolling. Reading rebuilds it. A practical guide to starting and protecting ...

You often hear the phrase “you are what you eat,” but you rarely consider that you are also what you read. In a world ...

Mr. Thompson calls this a “thinning of thought”: A slow erosion of our collective ability to hold complex ideas in mind, ...

Psychology and neuroscience provide intriguing answers.

Teenagers today are growing up in a world full of information, but not always full of wisdom. Developing sharp critical ...

We currently stand at an inflection point in history – we will likely soon witness the so-called AI revolution either succeed ...

Fred Lerdahl proposes a theory of the sounds of poetry conceived in musical terms.

No one can force you to listen or read anything. Once this is understood and actively applied, the individual possesses the ...

As our communities wrestle with loneliness, pleasure reading and the libraries that sustain it offers an affordable path to ...

A decade into the Trump era, readers who were once hungry to learn about the man seem to have had their fill. Not too long ...