From your mood to your stress level, if you've noticed that curling up with a book makes everything seem, well, better, you're not alone. The idea that books can improve a person's emotional well-being goes all the way back to the Ancient Greeks. In fact, a library in Thebes reportedly bore the inscription ‘healing place for the soul'" above its entrance.

As The Fault in Our Stars barrels into theaters this weekend virtually guaranteed to become a blockbuster, it can be hard to remember that once upon a time, an adult might have felt embarrassed to be caught reading the novel that inspired it. Not because it is bad—it isn’t—but because it was written for teenagers.

Many of us have felt a more pressing need to find our own corner of heaven over the last two years, and some have found theirs between the covers of a book. Despite the fragility of the wider economy, £1.1bn has been spent on 128 million books in the UK since mid-March, when market analysts Nielsen resumed their data reporting. That figure is up 9% from the same period in 2019.

In “The Story Paradox,” Jonathan Gottschall explores how narrative shapes reality and our own actions.

By portraying predators as villains, we are influencing how our children perceive the natural world

Some Texas residents are asking for greater say in what titles appear on public library shelves.

Four years ago, 13-year-old Rabiha, her mum and four siblings landed at Melbourne airport. They had spent three days in transit, fleeing Afghanistan. Meeting them at the airport was Rabiha's father, who they were reuniting with for the first time in five years.

Alex Skopic reports on widespread attempts to ban books and shrink U.S. prison libraries. The carceral system is aiming to both further immiserate prisoners and set up corporations like Barnes & Noble to profit from them.

As the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka publishes his first novel since 1972, Cameron Laux explores the role of satire in literature.

A most American nightmare

Reading – you either enjoy it, or you don’t even think about it. It’s fine to hate books, I guess. If you never have experienced the following 10 benefits that certain books might bring into your life, you can’t know better. I don’t mean to sound offensive; my intent is to help you understand that you are missing out (just like I did a couple of years ago) if you’re not exposing yourself to various literature that great minds had written.

I can't hold pictures in my head, even when I read, but I think the reading experience I have instead is even better.

Amazon's best Kindle gets better, albeit slightly more expensive.

Novelist Mark Billingham advises readers to angrily launch a book across the room after 20 non-gripping pages – but almost 40% of people will keep going right to the end.

There's no time like the winter to dig into a huge novel. 

The writing experience of the reMarkable, access to every major e-book store, plus the flexibility of Android.

The Harry Potter author gives us her Christmas Carol, and it’s a triumph, writes Amanda Craig

"Many authors I follow say their sales have never been as high as they are now, thanks to BookTok," user Sydney Blanchard told Insider.

OpenAI has developed an AI model that can summarize lengthy books, using a combination of task decomposition and reinforcement learning.

If you hate ebooks, that loathing might attach to their dim screens, their wonky typography, their weird pagination, their unnerving ephemerality, or the prison house of a proprietary ecosystem. If you love ebooks, it might be because they are portable, and legible enough, and capable of delivering streams of words, fiction and nonfiction, into your eyes and brain with relative ease.