Why So Many Readers Are Craving Depth Over Speed
When Carlo Petrini, an Italian journalist, stood outside a fast-food restaurant close to Rome’s Spanish Steps in 1986, he experienced […]
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What Happens to Your Brain When You Read for 30 Minutes a Day
The majority of people are aware that they ought to read more, albeit in a hazy and somewhat guilty way.
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John Betjeman Books Every Literature Lover Needs on Their Shelf
He can be found walking through St Pancras International on a gloomy London afternoon. He is life-sized in bronze, with
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The Hidden Habit That Separates Lifelong Readers From Everyone Else
Since 2016, a woman in Anaheim, California, has taken out over 1,300 books from her neighborhood public library. It’s not
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The Books That Quietly Change the Way You See the World
When you pick them up, the majority of books that truly transform a person don’t declare themselves to be life-changing.
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John Grisham Books Have Sold 300 Million Copies – Here’s Why the World Can’t Stop Reading Them
What John Grisham has accomplished over the last thirty years is almost subtly impressive. He wasn’t a writer at first.
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Why Some Stories Feel More Real Than Reality Itself
When someone finishes a book that is important to them, something subtly strange occurs. In the particular silence that follows
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Why Readers Crave Bleak Fiction During Difficult Times
Book sales in some categories experienced an unexpected development during the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the majority
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The Girl Interrupted Book That Changed How a Generation Talked About Mental Illness
Some books come to you instead of the other way around. Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted, a thin, 156-page memoir that
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Why Some Books Become More Powerful With Age – And Others Just Become Outdated
Returning to a book read decades ago and finding it nearly unrecognizable—not because the words have changed, but because the