Whatever book you pick up, it’s likely to make you feel better—maybe even a whole lot better. “In a secular age, I suspect that reading fiction is one of the few remaining paths to transcendence, that elusive state in which the distance between the self and the universe shrinks,” Ceridwen Dovey writes, in “Can Reading Make You Happier?,” which was published in 2015. Dive into the research behind the therapeutic effect of books: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Wv…

How public schools in the U.S. have effectively surrendered much of their pedagogy, curricula, and operating systems to a handful of trillion-dollar technology companies. newyorker.com/culture/progre…

The large majority of K-12 students spend many or most of their school hours staring at Microsoft and Google’s hardware and software, which are now loaded with generative-A.I. tools that can contribute to cognitive atrophy and loosen our collective hold on reality. Beyond A.I. concerns, both tech companies have been accused of illicitly collecting and using student data, yet “in many districts, opting out of Google Classroom would be close to opting out of public school altogether,” Jessica Winter writes. Read how public schools in the U.S. have effectively surrendered much of their pedagogy, curricula, and operating systems to a handful of trillion-dollar technology companies: newyorker.com/culture/progre…