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Chicago-area theater group Dramatech.in seeks male actors for a one-act Hindi satire by Harishankar Parsai, 'Inspector Matadin Chand Par.'

A popular Quora thread asked what Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and others did between ages 10 and 22. The answers share a striking pattern.

Pamela Druckerman's delightful reflection on the small, hard-won lessons of middle age — from spotting narcissists to the joy of unmedicated sleep.

Want kids who love reading? Let them read what they love — research shows fiction builds empathy and creative thinking, and habit starts early.

Our Naperville book club took on Paula McLain's 'The Paris Wife' — Hemingway's first marriage, the burden of genius, and whether Hadley's voice should have

A Naperville book club takes on Aravind Adiga's Booker-winning 'The White Tiger' — and splits three ways over its brutal portrait of class and caste.

Naperville's 'Chai, Chat with Books' club brings eight women together over chai and chaat to talk books. A diary note on why book clubs endure.

This book column looks at Lawrence Anthony's The Elephant Whisperer: a rogue elephant herd, a Zululand reserve, and a bond that crossed species.

Chai, Chat With Books is a small suburban book club of eight women who share a love of reading over tea, chaat, and lively conversation.

Gaithersburg Elementary scrapped worksheets in 2012 and assigned only 30 minutes of nightly reading — and test scores held up.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's novels map the interior lives of Indian and immigrant women — and much of their power lies in what her characters leave unsaid.

Brain scans show novels light up more than the language centers — fiction trains empathy, simulates experience, and rewires how we understand others.

An Ohio State study found preschoolers whose teachers pointed out letters and words during storybook reading read better one and two years later.

In a 2012 Science study, six Guinea baboons learned to distinguish correctly spelled four-letter words from nonwords — no speech required.

The children's books that endure — from Where the Wild Things Are to Matilda — and why the best gift is a grown-up willing to read alongside the child.

Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers argues that success owes as much to timing, culture, and 10,000 hours as to talent. A review of the year's most enjoyable read.