Can Reading Make You Happier? | the New Yorker
Novels offer us a kind of mental simulation of real life encounters, giving us useful practice in how to interpret the intentions, motives, longings and frustrations of friends, enemies, neighbours and lovers.
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
In his intriguing book Wonderworks Fletcher identifies 25 narrative “tools” or “inventions” that trigger traceable, evidenced neurological outcomes in the reader/listener/viewer. He points out that although the science is in its infancy, early findings reveal that “combined with the established areas of psychological and psychiatric research, they ... See more