Author Archives: Steven Liner

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Maura Kelly argues in The Atlantic that finding time to read the classics is good for you.Share | Comment

In the London Review of Books, John Sutherland reviews Bill W. and Mr Wilson: The Legend and Life of AA’s Co-Founder by Matthew Raphael in which he points out some of Alcoholic’s Anonymous’s contradictions. He notes how AA has become an accepted and integral part of the court system in the United States despite the [...]

Only when it happened to one of their own did Congress believe that the failure to disclose exculpatory evidence to the accused is a problem: “A criminal prosecution is the single most awesome use of government power short of warfare,” Norman Reimer said this week. It’s not unusual for Reimer, the head of the National [...]

Reading great fiction makes you more empathetic: It is an exercise that hones our real-life social skills, another body of research suggests. Dr. Oatley and Dr. Mar, in collaboration with several other scientists, reported in two studies, published in 2006 and 2009, that individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand [...]