Sometimes, it can be as simple as reading books on a topic you're interested in. Grant, a filmmaker, decided that this year that she wanted to read more books about filmmaking.

Nothing instills an idea of the world as a complex place demanding deep understanding like a book does because a book is ...

Rosin: Right. So you can’t go from reading portions of books to suddenly reading like, you know, 20 novels for a course. That just doesn’t make any sense. Horowitch: Yes. Yeah.

And then if you look at the books I'm reading in December, you know, they all happen to be, like, the length of, like, "Of Mice And Men." I'm just trying to put numbers on the board.

Courtesy photo, Matt Benson Alivia, 16, is a member of the Poudre Page Turners at Poudre High School. She said books help teens see themselves and people who are different from themselves.

Gilbert Cruz, Books Editor, The New York Times: The first one is "Swan Song." Elin Hilderbrand, she is a writer who puts a book out every summer. They're all about Nantucket. They all have drama.

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was ...

Lochlan (Sam Nivola) is reading one of the first books seen in Season 3. During Episode 4, Lochlan’s older brother Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) asks him what he’s doing, and he replies that ...

W hen I was an undergraduate at Amherst College, it was a rite of passage for all English majors to discover that they had entirely misunderstood Robert Frost’s most famous poem “The Road Not ...

Men are leaving fiction reading behind. Some people want to change that. Men are leaving fiction reading behind. Some people want to change that. In the mid-20th century, when this man browsed ...

Shane Harris: Reading is just so central to my mind to what it means to be human. Helen Lewis: Whatever you do when you read fiction is commit a small act of empathy. You think about situations ...