The 87-year-old pontiff believes reading literature enables individual people to learn the art of reflective personal discernment, empathy with others, as well as entering a dialogue with the culture ...

Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. Gregory Currie, a professor of philosophy at the University of Nottingham, recently argued in the New York ...

Edward Holly (CAS ’25) inherited his love of reading from his mother, who passed down the novels from her book club to him. Holly now helps run Lattes and Lit, an on-campus book club at Georgetown ...

Not according to neuroscience. Reading, science shows, doesn’t just fill your brain with information; it actually changes the way your brain works for the better as well. The short- and long-term ...

Tracing the trajectory of books someone has read reveals who they are. The titles they pause before and the sentences they linger on reflect how they perceive the world. Each person reads the world in ...

Is book banning contributing to declining literacy rates? That's the question addressed in a new paper by Danielle Dennis, ...

How to get smarter isn’t mysterious and it isn’t complex. The answer has been the same for millennia. Read more (though it’s true these days we do now have lots more delivery methods for insightful ...

Reading is hard right now. The pandemic has pushed our already scattered attention spans to a crisis point. But even before 2020, stressors such as political chaos and the allure of our phones made it ...