What do our reading choices say about us? When teaching creative writing and literature classes, I always ask my students about their favourite genres and current reading in the first week. It is a ...

Coetzee, in the city from which he had emerged, a city that he’d intermittently written about—without revealing much of it—and then left, in 2002. The 86-year-old author’s legacy, I’d been told, ...

There is anguish and confusion that the ‘prince of the humanities’ has fallen so far ...

I came away from the Call Her Daddy interview with the sense that Maas, like her leading women, is a lady with a plan who won’t compromise her creative vision for anyone.

Every major tech firm is building infrastructure for AI agents that will book flights, manage your calendar, send emails. The security is not ready ...

The Tunisian entry, The Voice of Hind Rajab is the critically acclaimed story of a five-year-old girl trapped in a car with the deceased members of her family around her as Red Crescent volunteers ...

WHAT Keir Starmer’s actual position is on Trump and Netanyahu’s imperial adventures in the Middle East is not entirely clear. We can however be sure that as Marx noted the past weighs like a nightmare ...

It’s a standard trope in portrayals of assimilated Jews to open with a scene built around a Christmas tree. That’s how Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” and Alfred Uhry’s “Last Night of Ballyhoo” begin, ...

The invitation-only conference in Rome has proven so controversial that Catholic universities initially associated with it have all denied official involvement.

Exploring former issues of Model Railroader magazine has always been something of a passion of mine. They are filled with a wealth of modeling tips and inspiring layouts that are still useful to today ...

Just as ‘wars begin in the minds of men’, peace also begins in our minds. The same species who invented war is capable of inventing peace. The responsibility lies with each of us.”                    ...