When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

NEW YORK (AP) — People stop reading in adulthood for lots of reasons. But it’s never too late to turn the page on old habits and start again. Curling up with a good book can reduce stress, increase ...

Psychology and neuroscience provide intriguing answers.

When a child shares a book with a parent or carer, this encourages joint attention, helping adults to connect with their ...

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“A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are actually teaching ourselves how to ...