Once upon a time, you sat and listened to a story. And you still do this. Storytelling has always been a popular and powerful tradition in society—a way to transmit people’s culture, values, beliefs ...

Hardbound story books may be going the way of the pay phone but clearly not the act of parents reading to their children. For example, a recent Pew Research Center survey (Miller, Zickhur, Rainie, & ...

From fairy tales to modern picture books, stories are powerful tools for nurturing empathy, respect, and emotional intelligence in children. Experts say early reading—especially with adult ...

(LOWELL, MASS.) In a Cambodian children’s folktale, one man is afraid of lawyers and another is afraid of filth. As the story goes, both are constantly bombarded by their fears despite their efforts ...

The gambling drama, "Two for the Money," has a good cast, a lot of New York flash and color and half an eye on the 1961 classic "The Hustler." Yet it never quite adds up to anything. It's engaging ...

The story of Atlantis starts not with archaeologists or ancient ruins, but with a philosopher sitting in Athens around 360 BCE. Plato, one of history's most influential thinkers, introduced this ...