'Time froze when I was told my 17-year-old son was dead - the world was no longer a place I wanted to be'
Crystal Owen's son Harvey said he loved her - hours later he was killed in a car crash in Eryri and now she is calling for a ...
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‘Make every word count’ — Roy Peter Clark discusses the power of short writing
We sat down with Poynter senior scholar Roy Peter Clark, author of numerous books including “How to Write Short: Word Craft ...
The politics and poetry of Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa: How an ancient epic shapes Indian culture and enforces inequality in modern India
Vālmīki’s epic poem “The Rāmāyaṇa” is a great work of literature and a treasure of Indian culture — but its political and ...
Now in his 70s, he can still recall, all these years later, the night they beat Bobby Orr
I track down Doug at his home in Petawawa in eastern Ontario. All these years later, he can still recall, in detail, the ...
Paul Theroux: ‘The business of identity, cultural appropriation and pronouns harms the imagination’
The travel writer and novelist on ignoring woke politics, smoking opium in Afghanistan and the book that broke his marriage ...
Shakespeare with Van Doren
You may wish to sign up with Mark Van Doren, the great professor of English who lived from 1894 to 1972. In 1938, he wrote Shakespeare, which can be had in an edition from NYRB. The foreword is by ...
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The brutal world of the Brothers Grimm
The singer who embodied the Swinging Sixties in her youth gained a power in her later years that suited her better.
The giant machine for plagiarism is now complaining that it has been plagiarised. Oh, the irony
As the public face of the company that makes ChatGPT, and which has thereby become synonymous with this understanding of AI, ...
SC inmate Marion Bowman dies by lethal injection, becomes nation's first prisoner executed in 2025
Marion Bowman Jr. dies Jan. 31, becomes third man put to death since South Carolina resumed executions. He was convicted of ...
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Ireland's enduring love affair with Marianne Faithfull
"Ireland is a sanctuary" Joseph Hoban explores Ireland's enduring love affair with musician Marianne Faithfull, who has died ...
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Pity the poesy: Mark Rutte, NATO and spending for war
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte seems to have been tempted, albeit briefly, by this notion of the poet-politician or the politician-poet. While his speech at the Concert Noble in Brussels last ...
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80 years later, why do we still talk about Auschwitz? – By His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden
To keep our conscience awake and our historical memory alive, transforming suffering into solidarity, free from hatred, ...