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US seniors posted their worst-ever reading scores; India's foundational reading is recovering. India treats reading as a skill. America treats it as taste.
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Most days I feel elated about being a working mother. But there are days when the guilt of not having spent enough time with my kids makes me miserable. All…
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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.'
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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.
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Pamela Druckerman's delightful reflection on the small, hard-won lessons of middle age — from spotting narcissists to the joy of unmedicated sleep.
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Want kids who love reading? Let them read what they love — research shows fiction builds empathy and creative thinking, and habit starts early.
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Summer season was heralded by a hot discussion on the book of the month, ‘Paris Wife’. The book’s theme is the joys, trials and tribulations shared by…
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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.
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Our book club’s pick for the month was “Three Weeks with My Brother” by Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks. One of the members of the club was going on a…
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Gaithersburg Elementary scrapped worksheets in 2012 and assigned only 30 minutes of nightly reading — and test scores held up.
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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.
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Brain scans show novels light up more than the language centers — fiction trains empathy, simulates experience, and rewires how we understand others.
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An Ohio State study found preschoolers whose teachers pointed out letters and words during storybook reading read better one and two years later.
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In a 2012 Science study, six Guinea baboons learned to distinguish correctly spelled four-letter words from nonwords — no speech required.
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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.
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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.
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