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 ...

As a psychologist who studies personality development, one of Maja Djikic’s biggest insights about what it means to be human is this: Our optimal state is that of continuous growth. Perhaps by some ...

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 ...

Reading non-fiction books is not my cup of tea, while they are informative and important to read, when I read for pleasure, I want to immerse myself in a world that could never be. Reading fiction ...

There's good news about reading, says the National Endowment for the Arts in a report the agency is releasing today. For the first time since the NEA began surveying American reading habits in 1982 -- ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A friend sent a meme to a group chat last week that, like many internet memes before it, managed to implant ...

Discovered: Emotional engagement with fiction boosts real-world empathy; a new MRI video of a fetal brain; Siberia's permafrost is thawing too quickly; a microchip that restores vision. Fiction as an ...

Professor of Children's Literature & Childhood Culture, Queen Mary University of London More people in the UK have gone dry this January than ever before, so drinking, not drinking, and navigating a ...