I research and write about happiness, so every year before Jan. 1, I ask people, “What resolutions will you make this year?” With reliable frequency, people tell me, “I want to read more.” Perhaps ...

Americans are reading for pleasure less. Let’s get back in the habit. By Jancee Dunn The staff at my local library are usually a convivial bunch, but when I asked them about a recent report that fewer ...

“A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are actually teaching ourselves how to ...

In between those New Year's Resolutions to eat healthier and exercise more, why not give your brain a bit of a workout too? Regular reading leads to positive impacts on your mental and emotional ...

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

Mr. Giles is a novelist and the former executive Hollywood editor of Vanity Fair. Anyone who’s published a book or tried to has had even indispensable friends and family tell them why they’re not ...