When we hear the beautiful call of a bird from a high bough, we’re told it’s likely to be a male – singing for territory, or belting out tunes to woo a... Read more »
‘To stay out late, to remain awake and mobile from dusk till dawn, to walk the streets all night as Charles Dickens did during a bout of insomnia in 1860, is to... Read more »
The birth of ransomware was a stunt that got out of hand. In 1989, an evolutionary biologist called Joseph L Popp Jr was working part time for the World Health Organisation on... Read more »
The literary free speech organization PEN America has announced plans for their 2026 World Voices festival. The four-day event will take place in New York and Los Angeles from 29 April to... Read more »
A comic book featuring a “flan cannon”, thermal underwear and “hairy” jam topped the overall UK book chart last week, in the run-up to World Book Day on 5 March. Bunny vs... Read more »
Schools in England are moving away from pupils dressing up as their favourite literary characters for World Book Day, with experts telling MPs they feared the cost of costumes undermined efforts to... Read more »
Cancer is a subject the poet laureate Simon Armitage has always shied away from. “I find it very daunting,” he said. “I’ve lost friends and family to cancer.” But when he was... Read more »
On a sunny Sunday morning in February 2018, I took a taxi from my guesthouse in the center of Lahore to the outer fringes of the Pakistani metropolis. My destination was the... Read more »
When was the last time you stopped to say thank you to a tree? Perhaps it’s something we should do more often. After all, we owe them everything, from the air we breathe... Read more »