Reading

Nothing provides a better escape than the pages of a good book. The Newsweek staff has chosen some of the best of this season's fiction and nonfiction that should keep your mind far away from viruses all the way through Labor Day.

"Netflix makes it easy to browse for something new to watch, and while many libraries have virtual browsing experiences, let's face it, they aren't exactly easy to navigate with any real success."

While you're grounded and social distancing, you can still travel the globe through the pages of these novels whose setting is often the main character.

Researchers quizzed over 1,500 fifth graders for their study.

Newsweek's top fiction and nonfiction spring books to entertain and excite your imagination from the blustery days of late winter until the sun shines in the spring.

With the arrival of the new year comes a flurry of new books we can't wait to devour.

Here are our top picks for the best new fiction and nonfiction as the leaves start to change color and the autumn air turns crisp.

"We've had coyotes sort of in and around the yard, but nothing ever close to this," the owner of the dog, Grace Tully, said after her friend protected the small pet from the jaws of the coyote.

Here are some of the upcoming releases, or recent releases, we're particularly excited about.

When the education secretary is outside Washington, she is an advocate for reading. Once back inside the Beltway, she ducks into a backroom and champions radical cuts.

"You don't read, remember! Maybe Barron will read it to you…" John Dean, Richard Nixon's White House counsel, tweeted on Saturday.

The process of linking marks with configuration could have started with Homo erectus, 1.8 million years ago.

Memory-inducing font was created by typographic designers and psychologists.

Pew poll shows the issue hits both Democrats and Republicans.

Ahead of a scheduled summit with President Donald Trump, North Korean officials have apparently been reading a book he'd probably rather they skip over.

A neural network model created by Alibaba bested its flesh-and-blood opponents on a 100,000-question test.

An artificial intelligence algorithm outperformed humans in a reading comprehension test for the first time.

Some books promote early learning better than others, researchers say.

Fewer than half of students in California from third to fifth grade met the literacy standards for the state since 2015.

Several studies have examined the potential benefits of reading in the past five years.

The president claims he's busy reading "documents" instead of watching television.

From Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen's satirical Trump memoir to Ron Chernow's next biography.

The cover was designed by Rodrigo Corral, the same man behind famous blue, black and white "The Fault in Our Stars" art.

Officials unveiled the Book Garden, a giant academic complex on Wednesday.

Hillary Clinton, who vanished for months after her November loss, has been on a tour of sorts recently.

The author tells Newsweek that "life is almost always troublesome, which is why it is important to look at literature more often and one's phone less often."

New study also disproves a theory about dyslexia.

The season's showpiece finals are still to be decided.

Everything you need to know about the eight best books released this week.

Everything you need to know about the six best books released this week.