Which book is best out of this list of literary fiction, mysteries, nonfiction, memoir and more? That’s for you to decide.

"May the force be with you." "Now, you're in the sunken place." Even if you haven’t read and watched the books, TV shows or movies those phrases come from, you’ve likely heard most of them. That, in ...

Focusing on the futuristic tech that appears in sci-fi without paying attention to the actual point of the story is a big ...

A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...

It’s a big day for bookworms: scientists studying how reading fiction affects your brain say the news is very good. In an interview with PsyPost, Lena Wimmer, a postdoctoral researcher at Germany’s ...

In 1944 the literary critic Edmund Wilson wrote an exasperated essay in the pages of The New Yorker titled “Why Do People Read Detective Stories?” Wilson, who at the time was about to go abroad to ...

Reading fiction has been said to increase people’s empathy and compassion. But does the research really bear that out? Textual Healing is a season that explores the benefits of reading for mental ...

This podcast from Canadian creator Eli McIlveen is a light-hearted and hilarious half-hour serial. It follows Alba Salix, Royal Physician and head witch at the House of Healing in the land of Farloria ...

There might some truth to the beloved quote, "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies." Researchers say reading fiction can show us different viewpoints — and shape how we relate to each other.

From Billie Eilish to Olivia Rodrigo, these celebrities have admitted to reading—or even writing—fan fiction about themselves ...

Though it's the first time Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, Erika Alexander and Leslie Uggams have acted together in a film, they said making "American Fiction" felt like a homecoming. "It's a special ...