For some, dictionaries are more than writing tools. They are doorways to discoveries.

Voices from Gaza’s Student GenerationZahid Pranjol and Jacob Norris (Editors), Daraja Press, £14.99ON a Zoom call in late December, Mariam, a student in Gaza, uses her phone camera to survey the ...

Inevitably, as I’ve gained a more refined appetite for literature, I’ve lost the taste for the pulp fiction I eagerly ...

People stop reading in adulthood for lots of reasons. But it’s never too late to turn the page on old habits and start again.

Elaine Reese, in her book How Stories Change Us, writes about myriad benefits of reading books both for children and adults.

Poetically, Tolkien’s long struggle to realize his vision — the self-doubt that led to long pauses in composition, his frustrations with publishers and his general inability to be satisfied enough ...

Fans of English novelist Jane Austen are celebrating her birth 250 years ago, on 16 December 1775. Nowadays, she's a pop ...

While Urdu poetry thrives through gatherings, media, social media and living traditions, anglophone verse, caught between ...

Slang helps kids fit in with their peers, but standard English proficiency remains crucial. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Book Review MTL Ebell is a well-known, established Sri Lankan writer, who has authored many publications winning the State Literary Award in 2008 for best short stories in English titled Short and ...

This is what mattered to me this year out of the small patch of that million-book forest I managed to walk through.

Best climate fiction, best historical fiction, best rom-com, best novel that could be described as “cerebral," and the novel ...