"David Foster Wallace once purportedly said 'When you read a Borges story you are playing a game, perhaps an amusing game and ...

While beers vary and maltier, darker heads are possible, as a general rule the foam is lighter than the drink itself, and often looks white. This is despite the amber, or even dark brown/black ...

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest ...

In 1845, physicist Michael Faraday provided the first direct evidence that electromagnetism and light are related. Now, it turns out that this connection is even stronger than Faraday imagined. In his ...

A new children’s book, titled Simple Machines Made Simple, wants to demystify mechanical engineering for kids as young as a year old. It recently beat its Kickstarter goal by 700%—raising more than ...

Lately, I’ve been reading physical books instead of my Kindle. You know, the kind printed on dead trees? It’s been nice, but I had one big problem to overcome when I made the switch: Kindles are ...

Six months ago, the London Book Fair brought American literary agents eagerly across the pond for a brief respite from an increasingly fraught U.S. political landscape. And those shopping books before ...

The Georgia-born, German-language author Nino Haratischwili’s 2014 novel, “The Eighth Life,” is a 900-plus-page doorstopper that chronicles a Georgian family’s fortunes across nearly the whole of the ...

You can harvest Blue Tale Cone Flowers in the Bind. The Bind is the first region you will find yourself in in the Storybook Vale expansion. After unlocking the Royal Net and restoring some of the ...

For more than 50 years, the Prison Book Program has been built on one simple idea: Everybody deserves the freedom to read. The Quincy-based nonprofit sends tens of thousands of free books each year to ...

With over four years experience in the gaming industry, Sharon has covered all kinds of gaming content from listcles to news on the latest events. She is a big fan of video game franchises like EA ...

The family seat, Cressingdon, which Ivy’s profoundly and proudly Bohemian mother, Marina, once described as “the most secular house in England,” will feel familiar to anyone versed in the Bloomsbury ...