New research shows that parents who read to their 6- to 8-year-olds nightly boost their children’s creativity and empathy.

Boys’ reading struggles are not inevitable, research suggests, and addressing the deficit could improve outcomes in school ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, ...

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 ...

ThriftBooks reports that 85% of Americans find reading attractive, though many struggle to make it a regular habit due to time and distractions.

Mr. Bannon is the chief librarian at the New York Public Library, where he is also director of branch libraries and education. Nov. 23, 2025 As a librarian, I get a lot of questions. One I am hearing ...

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In 2024, my niece Caroline received a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave physics. Her research interests include “the impact of model inaccuracies on biases in parameters recovered from gravitational wave ...

In an age when artificial intelligence can write essays, summarize novels and generate instant answers, we risk losing something profoundly human: our capacity for deep thought, imagination and ...