Researchers in Dublin have uncovered the oldest surviving English poem in a Roman library. The poem, "Caedmon’s Hymn," was composed in Old English by a Northumbrian worker in the seventh ...
What do empty malls, abandoned grocery stores, parking lots, laundry rooms late at night, and houses filled with endless rooms within rooms all have in common? These are all examples of liminal spaces ...
As summer draws nearer and the temperature creeps up, many kinds of leisure beckon: swinging in a shaded hammock; tending a ...
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As the world marks World Book and Copyright Day on 23 April, I find myself reflecting on a number of issues that lie at the heart of knowledge creation, cultural ...
Before her career as a novelist, Toni Morrison was a teacher. The famed American author, best known for works such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, was born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1931. After attending ...
Since the pandemic, more children have been starting school without being “school-ready”. In 2022-23, 33% of all children starting reception in England did not have the skills needed for success in ...
Dylin Hardcastle’s A Language of Limbs is a novel of two parallel stories unfurled. In each, a woman in 1970s Australia must make the decision of whether to act upon the queer desire she has for her ...
Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...
In ancient India, the most powerful god was known as “sky father,” or in the Sanskrit language, Dyaus pita. Sound it out. Can you see where this is going? In Greece, his equivalent was Zeus pater; in ...