The debate between literary fiction and genre fiction is a long-standing one. Genre fiction is accused of being insignificant and shallow while literary fiction is called pretentious and boring. There ...

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Researchers have published a paper demonstrating that reading literary fiction enhances a set of skills and thought processes fundamental to complex social relationships -- and functional societies.

I've dabbled in literary fiction from my time in school and initially getting back into reading, but its become a genre that ...

President Obama’s summer reading list is full of literary fiction. So is Richard Branson’s list of the books that influenced him the most. Both icons are exceptionally busy guys. Why do they make time ...

The worst thing about the present, if you’re an artist, is that it never stands still long enough. Once, perhaps, it lingered, back in the days when everyone communicated by letter and Jane Austen ...

How important is reading fiction in socializing school children? Researchers at The New School in New York City have found evidence that literary fiction improves a reader’s capacity to understand ...

In contemporary publishing, novels fixated on the past rather than the present have garnered the most attention and prestige. The 68th National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street, 2017. On Friday, ...

A pair of Shanghai natives meet in 1947 New York City, get married, and have two children including a girl named Gish, who grows up hearing the same refrain her mother did as a child: “Bad bad girl!” ...