Self-help books can be an accessible starting point of one’s reading journey, and an introduction to other forms of writing and cultures.

Northern Irish pupils can choose to continue their English literature studies in their A Levels. Those who do will end up studying a wide range of books and plays - and plenty of poetry. A number of ...

Preheat your oven to 220°c. Put the roughly chopped carrots, onions, apples, bulbs of garlic and thyme sprigs into a large ...

Lamia, one of the lesser-known demons in Greek mythology, is a bit of a shapeshifter, known as a man-eating monster.

In brilliant, intricate and sometimes confounding paintings, Joseph McHale explores the concepts of beauty, truth and light in his exhibit “Awake O’ Sleeper.” ...

There's something eternally fascinating about the art of sculpture, more so when it depicts the human form. Michelangelo, for ...

THE SOCIETY OF POETS A poem by Sudha Mukhopadhyay. WORDSWORTH wandered lonely as a cloud,When all at once he saw a crowd, ...

Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio. They include: -- Artist Jan Vermeer in 1632 -- Pope Clement XIV in ...

1926: Failed assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini by 15-year-old Anteo Zamboni, who is lynched on the spot. On the same ...

More than eight million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis ( TB) last year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, the highest number recorded since the U.N. health agency began keeping ...

A new piece of music believed to be by the Polish composer Frederic Chopin has been discovered nearly 200 years after it was ...

Her literary career began with a book of poems but her breakthrough novel was The Vegetarian, first published in Korean in 2007, and translated into English by Deborah Smith in 2015. It ...