Dark books What’s more wholesome than reading? Yet books wield a dangerous power: the best erode self, infecting readers with ideas by Tara Isabella Burton AEON 07 January, 2016 La Pia de Tolomei by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas. Photo by Wikimedia Tara Isabella Burton Reading novels is good for you. This is the current wisdom, at least. A 2013 study ..