On the way to the Nguyen Van Binh Book Street's coffee shop I grabbed an old novel off the table that was given to me a few ...

The decline of uptake of English Literature, as well as other humanities, was labelled 'concerning' by the President of the British Academy.

But there are also many old, out-of-use words for very specific types of writers (and also terrible writers). At the risk of ...

Kareem Ayas rolls up with a sparkling Sunday puzzle.

Many jobs require strong reading, comprehension and problem-solving skills, and adults with lower literacy levels may ...

It’s confession time; I’m an annotator (a person who adds explanatory or critical notes to a text) and often write in the ...

Visionaries of 1925 made their best guesses about the 21st century. Predictions included world peace, food shortages and ...

Delving into the unusual worlds of Reid Byers’s “Imaginary Books,” Paul Valéry’s “Monsieur Teste” and “The Anthologist’s ...

What's one thing humankind can do to help heal the world? The wishes cover everything from upholding Jimmy Carter's legacy to ...

In the fall of 1918, hundreds of U.S. infantrymen found themselves surrounded by German forces in northern France’s Argonne ...

William Shakespeare’s play ‘Richard III’ illustrates how a power-hungry monarch can attain the throne at the expense of civil ...

A walk along the path around the Dal Lake is a very pleasant.  It cannot be said that it is around the corner, ...