What does reading provide, and what are its perils? These recent memoirs and books about reading dive into this question in ...

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

It’s likely no surprise to hear how much we love reading over here at The Charlotte Observer. We read all day as part of our jobs, and many of us love to spend our free time reading, too. So when I ...

Banning, and even burning, books that conflict with tightly-held ideology is nothing new. In 1933, student-led book burnings at the University of Berlin spurred a list of government-enforced banned ...

Concerning lessons from cognitive and educational psychology. Last year, various surveys, including reliable indicators, have ...

If you grew up in the pre-internet era in a region where inclement weather during the winter months was the norm like I did, in a one TV household like I did, perhaps reading for pleasure became a ...