Edward Thomas’s “October”

During the First World War, the American poet Robert Frost persuaded the young British writer Edward Thomas to take up poetry.

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The resistible rise of populist politicians

Political satire is still relevant even after 60 years.

Meet the Ancestors’ ancestors!

Everyone loves a good dinosaur story

The Pied Piper of Hamelin (II)

All may not be as it seems in medieval Hameln, near Hanover in Germany.

The Pied Piper of Hamelin (I)

The town of Hameln is known in Germany and England for a dubious character who once spirited away its rats and its children.

Pause for thought: Elias Canetti

When a book’s time has come.

Pause for thought: Alberto Manguel

Every library tyrannizes the act of reading.