The best route to learning to love words in print could well be pictures. This, at least, is the hope of the publishing industry this spring, as it welcomes news that sales... Read more »
“Thanks, but I still have at least another month of seasonal depression to go.” Source link Read more »
A little over 50 years ago, the American broadcaster Studs Terkel published an oral history based on interviews with 133 workers across the US. This was a time of automation and global... Read more »
Bereaved families and communities came together in a day of reflection on Sunday to mark five years since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Towns and cities across England, Wales, Scotland and... Read more »
“Wait, are we bidding? You can’t bid on something I already bought.” Source link Read more »
In 1931, William Herbert Wallace was first convicted and then acquitted on appeal of the murder of his wife, Julia. Her killer was never found and the case remains one of the... Read more »
The thoughts of Mao Zedong, published in 1964 under the title Quotations, are considered the blueprint for Chinese communism and a guidebook to the Cultural Revolution. The collected soundbites from his speeches... Read more »
“Oh, it’s not ashes—just too many facepalms watching that speech last night.” Source link Read more »
Xiaolu Guo, 52, was born in China and lives in London. The author of more than 20 books in a variety of genres in Chinese and English, she’s also a film director... Read more »