Dianne Lockhart was born in Kandy and grew up in Kurunegala, in idyllic surroundings, in the 1950s. Here she reminiscences about bringing up a leopard cub she named Poppaea. The rescue of this leopard ...

Today is April Fools’ Day, the annual holiday that celebrates pranking, hoaxes, and all manner of horseplay and tomfoolery.

The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated civilization pushes Grade into a biblical register. His mother’s home is ...

A ghostly water park that has been abandoned for the last decade after a tragic explosion has been explored by an American vlogger. Exploring with Josh, a youtuber who 'explores the unknown ...

I am not drawn to writers – Joyce, Eco, Rushdie – who demand we kneel before their genius. Strangely, you never feel this with Ricks. At the same time, he is very aware of competition, rivalry, envy: ...

If you’re hunting for the perfect love poem for a woman, look no further than Byron’s most famous lines. “She Walks in Beauty” praises a woman’s inner and outer beauty, complementing ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...

But there's a problem: "pius" Aeneas, as he's called in the poem (meaning dutiful and, for lack of a better term, job-oriented), has his eyes on his mission to found a new city for his people ...