Why the benefits of enjoying foreign works of culture transcend simple entertainment.

This series of children’s books just might make the world a better place.

In this library, the books are people, and the stories are their lives.

Sasha Alyson hauls (sometimes by elephant) children's books in the local language to kids in rural Laos that are eager to learn to read.

For the past 20 years, Cynthia Dobrez has perfected her formula for getting the middle-school students of Holland, Mich. excited to read.

Former high-tech exec John Wood shares his passion for reading in Asia and Africa.

A new book tells the story of a woman who unknowingly changed medical science.