The brain seeks novelty. Passive tasks can lead to skill decline. Challenging the brain with new learning, like a new ...

This colorful book of memories highlights life stories and nuggets of wisdom, with questions about grandparents’ schooldays, experience raising a family and more, plus the impact that resilience, ...

Researchers have learned a lot about how memory works. Their insights form the basis of clever strategies that help us ...

During the Jewish diaspora, special volumes were created to preserve the recollection of towns and villages that had been ...

When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

Part memoir and part fiction, Barnes' hybrid novel publishes the day after his 80th birthday. He's been living with a rare ...

Y es—oh, dear, yes —the novel tells a story,” E. M. Forster wrote. “I wish that it was not so.” Julian Barnes has confessed ...

Karenne Sylvester was forced to book a back room when working on campus to ensure she "did not risk coming into contact with ...

IN an era dominated by digital media and rapidly advancing technology, reading printed books is increasingly viewed as a ...

Martine Purdy's son Franki, 11, was given just one hour to live after a five-week chest infection turned into a rare and ...

Joanna Olczak-Ronikier conveys the love and ideals of a large Jewish clan in a place where Jewish lives were always endangered.

Author Tathagata Basu recounts a catastrophic event that changed his life forever, honoring loss, resilience, and the power of remembering. NEW YORK CITY, NY, UNITED STATES, January 5, 2026 ...