As parents, we ensure to help our child in every way possible through our actions. However, when it comes to words, we may not necessarily be doing enough to keep them motivated. Words are powerful, ...

David Szalay thoroughly deserves the Booker Prize. We meet István as a 15-year-old, living with his mother in a dull ...

More and more people are enjoying their retirement in a new land, and there are plenty of compelling reasons why retiring ...

Set in a thinly-fictionalised St Andrews, and concerning the mysterious disappearance of a young woman, Francine Toon’s new ...

Ghislaine Maxwell is asking Donald Trump to commute her prison sentence. The longtime girlfriend and criminal associate of ...

Husbands tell me they are feeling rejected and confused. They think the problem must be physical, or timing, or stress. They ...

Hyderabad’s Nizams often kept companions, poets, musicians, or women of foreign origin, who offered them emotional comfort and a retreat from the pressures of politics ...

The desire to hear someone’s last words has a profoundly human quality. Last words are important because they are the last ...

The Israeli Knesset’s approval of the death penalty bill in its first reading marks a dangerous turning point — for Palestinians under occupation, for international law, and for humanity. Passed on ...

What can we learn about human intelligence by studying how machines "think?" Can we better understand ourselves if we better ...

American history, when told well, resists the tidy progressions we like to imagine for it. Two recent works -- Ken Burns and ...