We all know that reading about heroic characters in impossible situations can be thrilling and a great escape from our otherwise drab lives. But new research shows that reading fiction can actually make us better people as well — the more we identify with fictional characters on the page, the more we try to act…
A lot of the writing on the Internet about The Hunger Games is snark about its derivativeness (It’s Series 7 with kids! It’s the Minotaur with television! It’s Marathon Man meets The Long Walk plus a girl protagonist, minus Stephen King! It’s Battle Royale for people who hate subtitles!). But if The Hunger Games seems…
