{
  "id": 10698473,
  "title": "The novel on your nightstand may be doing more for your empathy and cognitive health than you think",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/the-novel-on-your-nightstand-may-be-doing-more-for-your-empathy-and",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-29T13:20:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-nightstand-empathy-cognitive-health.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A popular narrative across Instagram Reels, business podcasts and magazine covers is that people who are smart and serious about growth read nonfiction. Nonfiction directly provides factual information and real-world knowledge, whereas fiction, like novels and poetry, is treated as a less practical cousin. Now, a recent study has asked whether fiction really is just entertainment.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Yahoo Sports",
        "title": "‘Things I think’: The Giants won, but to keep doing that they must get better",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/things-i-think-the-giants-won-but-to-keep-doing-that-they-must-get",
        "published": "2026-09-28T13:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}