One late evening in December, 1985, I heard a radio talk-show host announce “a great loss: Robert Graves is dead.” It came as ...

A winter ode to rest, stillness, and the joy of staying in bed ...

John Carey, the former Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford who has died aged 91, was one of Britain’s most ­eminent ­literary critics, but one who ­always regarded himself as an outsider ...

The best-selling author shares how a shared passion brought her together with her husband.

As one might expect from a month full of long, dark nights, December is a highlight for those with a penchant for looking to ...

Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway was one of the great 20th-century American novelists, and is known for works such as A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea.

Musk recently said: “AI and robots will replace all jobs. Working will be optional.” Gates predicted that humans “won’t be ...

John Cardwell was earning his degree in social studies education at Indiana University in the 1970s; he also was working on his parents' farm. Having grown up on that farm, he knew about flora, fauna ...

As the nights grow longer and the turtle doves start to coo, we may all want to wrap up in something (or someone) cosy and ...

It’s not much fun being a schoolmaster nowadays. There are all sorts of new ways one can get into trouble: missing an angry ...

Every person alive needs God, desperately. And too often he does not even know it. The saddest people on earth are the ones who do not have God. Either they fail to believe that God exists, or they ...

As a producer of sentences, paragraphs, and pages worth reading, John Updike was voluminous. Over the course of his life he ...