These studies miss a bigger point by implying that reading fiction is, at its best, a tidy cause-and-effect process. Enter intellectually weak and benighted, exit emotionally toned and trim, as if a novel were the psychological equivalent of kettlebells or a Peloton bike. Fiction's strength, though, is that it delivers not order and clear direction, […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PM on January 10, 2020