Avid readers of fiction score better on international tests, but simply encouraging all students to read fiction for pleasure is unlikely to equip them to understand the expository text they'll be ...

Fiction reading can be viewed as a considerable factor in the rehabilitation process for persons on sick leave. This is the conclusion of a new interdisciplinary study on sick-listed women’s ...

December 4, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Ask a liberal arts major about the benefits of reading fiction and they'll regale you with all kinds of ...

If you are fond of fiction books, you must know that these genres have the potency to make you a better person. In fact, according to research at Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab, psychologist Diana ...

Numerous studies have shown that reading fiction can make you a better person. And, when you grow up reading fictional books, you discover the best version of yourself. It’s because reading fiction ...

In a haunting scene from Khaled Hosseini’s bestselling first novel, The Kite Runner, a young Amir watches helplessly as his best friend Hassan gets assaulted. As Amir stands paralyzed on the sidelines ...

Both former President Obama and Mark Zuckerberg have publicly talked about how they like to regularly kick back with a good work of fiction. Are they just letting off steam after a hard day at their ...

Neuroscientists have discovered that reading a novel can improve brain function on a variety of levels. The recent study on the brain benefits of reading fiction was conducted at Emory University. The ...

Professor and Head of Department of Philosophy, University of York If you are committed to the pleasures of reading you may be pleased to discover that there is evidence to suggest that reading ...

Anyone who dragged through Chaucer and Milton, Dickinson and Plath in any standard English-lit course has got to be surprised by this news: Poetry reading is up in America while reading books for ...