Education

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.

Without rain, neighborhoods covered in fine debris from the fires must find a way to deal with it on their own.

German booksellers did roaring business last week when there appeared on the market an antiSemitic, Nazified version of The Gospel According to St. John, adapted from Martin Luther’s standard...

There is a common narrative that our attention is a precious resource. But that narrative is incomplete.

In The Empusium, the Polish novelist’s first novel since her Nobel, she pays homage to Thomas Mann in order to redraw the boundaries of the realist novel.

Before she started university, Beth Beddall had never really thought about her Black Country accent. But when she started attending seminars during her undergraduate course at Durham University in 2022, she began to feel self conscious, and avoided speaking up in front of the other students.

Populated as it is with elves, demons and magic of all kinds, J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is perhaps the most influential fantasy narrative of the past century.

I once owned a photograph of Yukio Mishima squatting in the snow, dressed in nothing but a skimpy white loincloth, brandishing a long samurai sword. Mishima’s torso is buffed from years of bodybuilding, his legs almost spindly by comparison.

My friends and I never thought this day would come. The daily routines of over 170 million Americans have been disrupted by a nationwide TikTok ban. On the bright side, my homework will get done a lot quicker. Every day, I get home from school around 3:30 p.m.

Banksy is one of the world's most famous graffiti artists. His work has sold for millions of pounds and his exhibitions seen by hundreds of thousands of people. But behind layers of paint, lost in time at a Bristol youth club, there's a Banksy very few people know about.