Gyula Benczúr’s Reading Woman in the Forest (1875). (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) What’s So Great About the Great Books? Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You) by Naomi Kanakia Princeton, 262 pp., $25.95 (hardcover) AMID ANXIETIES ABOUT artificial intelligence and reports of social media–induced brain rot which some say has left college students unable to finish reading twenty-page articles let alone full-length books, there is also talk about a book resurgence.