Colleagues and mentors tell us to stay current with industry trends by reading the latest studies and articles. We also read all the “mandatory” business nonfiction, filling our bookshelves ...

My university (not that I own it or anything, but I’m proud to work here at CU Denver) hired a PR firm a number of years ago to help sell us to students and parents. The major slogan they came ...

A 2013 study found that literary fiction in particular improves degrees of social perception and empathy, meaning reading literally makes us better people. Despite the evidence that not reading ...

although Paul demonstrates is possible, to measure. Even so, such reading doesn't make us better so much as it makes us human.

“The thinking a person engages in while reading fiction does not necessarily lead him or her to a decision,” they note. This, they observe, decreases the reader’s need to come to a ...