This deliciously readable book is a cultural tour de force through eras of oral storytelling, from religious texts to Doja ...

You Didn’t Hear This From Me” is an inquiry into one of society’s oldest practices. McKinney writes about gossip with an ...

Adventure-loving dad of three Chris Howard reflects on the power of storytelling and explains how he is fostering a love of ...

He fails to bring home with him the key to immortality, and enters instead the realm of epic heroes ... The organisation of the book also indicates the linguistic genealogy of Gilgamesh through its ...

An ancient story takes shape in Marin Shakespeare Company’s capacious black box on Fourth Street in San Rafael.

By Nicolas Niarchos A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right movement seething in resentment, suspicious of reason and determined to dominate at all costs. By Jennifer ...

Glamour! Parties! And a LOT of money… with the Formula 1 season just a few weeks away a new book explains how it's become the world's hottest sport. This week, Simon Scarrow answers our burning ...

True Notes on Gossip, by Kelsey McKinney, published on February 11, 2025. The robots are always on the brink of destroying every creative career. Right now, the evil robot du jour is artificial ...

The oldest known written story, the epic of Gilgamesh, warns against cutting down the cedar forests of Mesopotamia. But the moral was disregarded and what was once the city of Uruk is now just a ...