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Mounting evidence suggests that regularly cozying up with a book can increase brain and mental health, improve literacy and math skills, and even slow cognitive decline. What's more, fiction seems to ...

I know in my head that I should read books, but I'm too busy with work and housework to find the time.” “Even when I do open ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Tracy Brower writes about community, joy and the future of work. If you want to improve your brain power and your mental ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge studied more than 10,000 children and found substantial benefits for those who started reading early. The scientists found that reading at any age can reap ...

People truly are reading less these days, especially for fun. It’s the central concern of a new study published in iScience that’s quantified just how much less reading people in the U.S. have been ...

For author Melanie Saward, stories are so much more than words. "I think it's a safe way of confronting the parts of ourselves that we don't often like and that we need to sit with in order to grow," ...

I was 25-years-old and living in New York City. I had just finished my first novel, set to dip my toes into the literary world for the first time. Then, I spilled water on my computer, and lost the ...

Have you ever stopped to think about how something as simple as reading could shape the course of your life? It’s not just about escaping into a good story or learning new facts—reading has a profound ...

In the People’s Trial, researchers led by Elaine Finucane recruited 991 adults and randomly assigned half to read a book in bed for 15 to 30 minutes before sleep for a week and half not to. Among 774 ...

Reading has an effect from a very young age, says Barbara Sahakian, an emeritus professor of clinical neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. and an author of the new paper. In one ...