The Atlantic的文章: The Real Reason Men Should Read Fiction
男性应该读小说的真正原因
Literature is often pushed on allegedly reluctant men as a machine for empathy. I read it for a different reason.
文章提到的NYT文章👉 http://t.cn/A6DG3Fke

The concept of reading as an empathy machine—to borrow a phrase that originated with the late movie critic Roger Ebert—is appealingly idealistic. Stories that burrow into characters’ trains of thought can capture true interiority in a way that film or nonfiction cannot. For a similar reason, personal essays are more likely to go viral than an academic paper about the same subject, because reality is more engaging as a described experience than as a series of logically arranged details.