Regular book reading appears to promote a 'significant survival advantage,' says a Yale University study.
'The Chemist,' the first adult novel of 'Twilight' author Stephanie Meyer, follows the adventures of a former clandestine government operative who goes on the run.
'We flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer, or even a book,' the president said during an interfaith memorial service Tuesday for five Dallas police officers.
The same way that some families go to the same mountain cabin, beach house or place by the lake each vacation season, every summer I find myself circling back to 'Robinson Crusoe.'
Reading at least one poem a day has been like an intellectual vitamin, giving me a small dose of literature even on busy days when I can’t get to the novels and nonfiction on my nightstand.
As Trump faces fire, a look back at the words that shook Joseph McCarthy.
Flannery O’Connor once said that, 'in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements and statistics, but by the stories it tells.'
'Maybe four years ago, I read that your and my grandchildren will not see elephants in the wild,' Pearson told Monitor contributor Erik Spanberg. 'I kind of got passionate about it and I decided to make it the topic of [my] book.'
The socks of Americans Jack Sock and Bethanie Mattek-Sands are seen during play against Americans Venus Williams and Rajeev Ram during the tennis mixed doubles gold medal match on Sunday.
The future president lost to Gerald Ford in nail-biter but emerged wiser and stronger.
Smith read broadly and avidly as a child, and she seems to remember just about every book that she devoured.
Why books still matter – even (and maybe especially) in times of trial.
Historian Susan Jaques talks about the Russian monarch’s stunning legacy.
An unspoken rule of our annual start-of-summer literary field trip is that there will be no fatherly homilies on the 'Importance of Reading.'
In the midst of war, Smoke won hearts and earned himself a new job and a new home – thanks to a story by a Monitor correspondent.
Yes, it's a nuisance when the stacks of yet-to-be-read magazines reach frightening altitudes. But sooner or later comes the day when I actually do read them.
Historian Howard Means, author of ‘67 Shots,’ explores the myths and realities of the 1970 Kent State shootings.
Matthew Desmond explores the intense hardship connected with evictions, which have now become a regular occurrence in American cities.