A former child detainee at the Tornillo migrant detention tent camp tells his story in the book Detained: A Boy's Journey of Survival and Resilience.

Blaise Pascal resists definition. During a short life (he died in 1662, aged 39) he invented the calculator, laid the ...

The iconic Tower of London has just welcomed two new resident ravens, and they're almost ready to begin their tower-guarding ...

There’s something awry in my head that zigs when everybody else zags. I can’t explain it and can’t stop it. I’m weird.

John Lennon was inspired by one of his favourite poems when writing 'I Am The Walrus', but there was a big mistake at the centre of it.

Once, while working in a primary school, and trying to impress upon a group of 11-/12-year-olds the merits of brevity in creative writing, one ...

Rural Ireland has a rich history of songs, stories and poems that celebrate the local. In Jane Austen’s world, a townland was a whole world, ...

Her art changes me, changes us. Min said, “We cannot help but be interested in the stories of people that history pushes aside so thoughtlessly.” Of course this is true. So maybe the way this ...

In ‘some things in the belly’, artists try to understand mothers beyond their roles, through letters, films, poetry, and ...

Polish youth revisit the wartime sanctuary of their grandparents who were sheltered during World War II by the Maharaja of ...

Joan Jonas’ evolving practice explores a wide variety of themes without ever reducing them to simple narratives. Photo: Toby ...

I saw the original four members of the Velvet Underground, yet I feel like I saw them at the wrong time.” Dean Wareham recalls over the phone, the morning after his third tour date in Ojai, CA. “I saw ...