Being a reader means cultivating a relationship with the world that, by most standards, can seem pointless and ...

A grandfather tells stories to his granddaughter at a library in Beijing on the International Children's Book Day, which falls on April 2 every year. [Photo by Wang Jing/Asianewsphoto] The importance ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Road to Middlemarch: My Life With George Eliot by Rebecca Mead (Granta Books) There is a series of postcards by the Dutch cartoonist Joost Swarte that applies the alarmist tone usually reserved ...

Pope Francis lamented that ‘a sufficient grounding in literature’ is not a standard part of priestly formation. But some seminaries in the U.S. and abroad seem to be bucking that trend. Seminarians ...

Patricia Vieira is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature and Film and Media at Georgetown University. In 2013-14, she is Ikerbasque Visiting Professor in the Institute ...

n March 2016, a study conducted by Central Connecticut State University (CCTU) entitled “Most Literate Nation of the World” placed Indonesia as the 60th most literate nation out of 61 nations on the ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...