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 ...

During the pandemic, I provided counseling for several health care providers. These dedicated medical professionals faced overwhelming stress due to: Patients dying at an increasingly higher rate.

English teachers have long claimed reading books makes you a better person, maybe because their livelihoods have long depended on it. Now they've got proof, courtesy of the science wing. But not just ...

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 -- ...

2026 Reading List: Start New Year With These Best Authors Of Fiction Novels The new year 2026 demands a fresh set of books ...

Allow me to offer one possible reason men read less fiction than women, as noted by Finnegan Schick (“Why men have stopped reading fiction,” Ideas, Aug. 10): They read more nonfiction. Anecdotally, I ...

Since reading Bryan Alexander’s book Universities on Fire, I’ve been immersing myself in every climate crisis novel I can lay my hands on. After reading all this fiction, I’ve been dreaming of turning ...