Reading fiction is fun. It helps us escape, arouses us, entertains and educates us. But is it doing us any good?
Novelist and cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah believes that imaginative literature can help us to be better people and help the world to be a better place.
The Ghanian-British thinker – whom Forbes magazine named one of the world’s seven most powerful thinkers in 2009 – argues that spending time in the world of the imagination helps us gain in an insight and understanding into other cultures that any amount of studying facts and figures cannot provide.
