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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's not news that reading has countless benefits: Poetry stimulates parts of the brain linked to memory and sparks self-reflection; kids who read the Harry Potter books tend to be better people. But ...

If reading fiction is an exercise in empathy, a way for you to see the world through someone else's eyes, then reading science fiction and fantasy ups the ante. You still see through someone else's ...

Does reading fiction make you a better, less self-absorbed person? You read because you are interested in the broad sweep of human experience, and because you want to gain access into the narrow ...

While I was at Readercon, I had a chance to sit down with the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize winning critic Michael Dirda to talk about science fiction and fantasy. Dirda has long been a reader of ...

Over the course of my life, I have taken on all manner of spiritual practices, from now-I-lay-me-down-to-sleep to centering prayer. I have prayed with the Psalms, with the rosary, with icons. I have ...