Experts break down whether listening to audiobooks or reading a print book is better for your brain health as you age.

Evidence-based reading instruction should intentionally develop both reading proficiency and reading engagement, and motivation can be built directly into evidence-based reading instruction rather ...

“Reading fiction inspires us to leave our own perspective behind, and take on the thoughts and feelings of others,” Wolf said ...

A massive new study reveals that intelligence plays a surprisingly limited role in children's reading success, while visual processing showed no meaningful connection at all. Instead, the strongest ...

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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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 ...

Krupp has held about a dozen of the so-called Book Doofs in Melbourne, and three in Perth, since the first event in October 2025, he says. In Australia, “bush doofs” are dance parties held in remote ...

Plans to turn the British Library’s science and social sciences reading rooms into pay-to-use co-working spaces have divided ...