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

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Reading promises so much: better mental health, a sense of wellbeing, cultural and educational enrichment, even greater ...

A quiet revolution has been unfolding in everyday life. Over the past 20 years, the quiet pleasure of reading a book, magazine, or newspaper for enjoyment has been declining. A sweeping new poll ...

(CNN) — Karen Read descended the steps of the Norfolk County Superior Court on Wednesday a free woman, acquitted of murder. Met by a sea of supporters, cheering and firing pink confetti cannons, there ...

• Acquitted of murder: Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman accused of drunkenly striking her off-duty police officer boyfriend and leaving him to die in January 2022, was found guilty of drunk driving ...

If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, the population of American readers, Lector americanus, has been declining for decades. The ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, ...

Literacy rates in the United States have been declining for over a decade, with the COVID-19 pandemic worsening the trend. Experts suggest that language development begins in utero and that reading to ...

The special prosecutor who led the retrial of Karen Read is “disappointed” in the jury’s decision last week acquitting Read of killing her police officer boyfriend – saying Monday in his first ...

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