One Story to Read Today highlights a single newly published—or newly relevant—Atlantic story that’s worth your time.

Reading stories regularly strengthens social-cognitive skills—such as empathy—in both children and adults. And this, in turn, ensures that we can empathize with characters more effectively and more ...

2024 was filled with stunning twists, so it’s no surprise that Intelligencer readers gravitated toward stories that helped unpack them. Our annual list of the most-read stories of the year, measured ...

Reading fiction places us in complex narrative worlds, learning about the exploits and the inner lives of others.

Struggles with reading comprehension. Debates over the role of social-emotional learning in classrooms. The prevalence of cheating through the use of AI. Those are just a few of the topics that made ...

Are you trying to get back into reading? Looking for something easy to dip into during your lunch breaks, or in between dips in the pool while on vacation? What could be better than a book where each ...

Neuroscientists mapping the brain have discovered that reading fiction taps into the same brain networks as real life experience. When you are engaged in reading a fictional story your brain is ...

In 2025, it felt like we simultaneously took a leap into the future and were hurtled back a few decades. So it’s no surprise that Intelligencer readers gravitated to stories that helped make sense of ...