Reading is central to being human. And yet, it’s hard to miss the signs of decline. Surveys show that children’s appetite for reading is in free-fall: fewer than one in five British youngsters between ...

When you think back on the English classes you took in school, you probably learned about key literary figures and different writing techniques. But at Northern Illinois University there’s a class ...

The mayor’s inaccurate statement allowed gullible rubes and bad-faith trolls to bash this city as a hotbed of organized, ...

Cicero insisted that doing good is doing well—that moral rectitude is always what is personally expedient, even if something else seems to be expedient. Dan Klein exposits and explores Cicero’s famous ...

The location and other fresh details about this year’s Vogue World were revealed at a press conference in Milan today.

Bookworms must stave off our becoming a ‘post-literate generation’ - COMMENT: Having converted the UK into history buffs, ‘The Rest is History’ co-host Dominic Sandbrook is hoping his new podcast proj ...

There’s a crisp purity to Notre-Dame ­Cathedral in Paris, rebuilt in a short five years after it was destroyed by fire in 2019. Standing at the cathedral’s heart on the first day of a European trip, ...

Homer's Epics, Iliad and Odyssey, brought the ideas of Greek civilization to the world, serving as the foundation of Western literature.

The service union Verdi has signed a collective agreement that results in massive cuts in real wages for public sector workers in the federal states.

Today in History for Feb. 23: ...

The Peruvian writer and journalist revives in 'The Coup Plotters' the failure of the three days in 2002 when a coup d'état attempted to remove Hugo Chávez from the presidency of Venezuela, and he ...

Cars and I have never been the best of friends. The first time I took the driver’s test, I failed.  I took the test in my father’s ill-maintained 1958 straight shift Ford with a steering wheel so huge ...