We might rarely get to see snowfall in Los Angeles, but logging onto social media in December means the arrival of a different kind of flurry. The one where our friends, both close and parasocial, ...

If you're a devoted reader, chances are you have plenty of books lying around your home, and while bookcases are the typical vessel to hold and organize them, it's not the only way to put your ...

What do zombies have to do with the poetry of T. S. Eliot? Such are the funny little connections that pepper Canadian author Margaret Atwood's third essay collection. It gathers more than 50 "essays ...

"That the nation known as the Giant of Africa was credited with harbouring the Happiest People in the World was no longer news," writes Nigerian literary titan Wole Soyinka in his third novel. To this ...