John Smyth, who died in 2018 aged 77, was born in Canada to parents who were members of the cultish Plymouth Brethren. The ...

Generations of children have grown up reading A.A. Milne’s stories of Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. First published in 1924 and later brought to life in numerous films and ...

Oxford believed that his wife had been unfaithful to him while he was away on a European tour and (for a time, at least) seems to have doubted that he was the father of her first child. Hamlet says to ...

the heir to V S Pritchett’s throne as the leading metropolitan – London-born, London-saturated – all-round man of letters. Yet he merits only a couple of references in D J Taylor’s history of modern ...

Fix our roads! There is a saying about the lack of intelligence in repeating the same actions but expecting different ...

Lili Anolik’s “Didion & Babitz” is a sparkling and ardent look at the conflicting sensibilities of two iconic Californians ...

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Daniel McAlpine, a private in the Highland Light Infantry, was sheltering in a tunnel under the Somme village of Bouzincourt, France, when he pencilled his name, service number, unit, home town of ...

In a newly published study, participants had difficulty distinguishing AI-written poems from those written by famous human ...

The Valley School in North Bennington honored area veterans from all wars Friday afternoon with an inspired program of patriotic songs, letters from the kids, poems, and gratitude for their service.