The Common Core Standards do not require reading complete long works of literature. Even by the time we arrive at the 11th and 12th grade set of standards for reading literature, the standards only ...

Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. Gregory Currie, a professor of philosophy at the University of Nottingham, recently argued in the New York ...

Karen Swallow Prior is an author and professor of English at Liberty University. She’s written several books, including her latest, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books, in which ...

As our communities wrestle with loneliness, pleasure reading and the libraries that sustain it offers an affordable path to ...

The 87-year-old pontiff believes reading literature enables individual people to learn the art of reflective personal discernment, empathy with others, as well as entering a dialogue with the culture ...

Reading award-winning literature may boost your ability to read other people, too, a new study suggests. Researchers found that when they had volunteers read works of acclaimed "literary fiction," it ...

Christians are comfortable with the classics. But reading contemporary literature can be a search for truth too. In his introduction to Athanasius’ On the Incarnation, C. S. Lewis famously makes the ...